You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.