I say 'I love you' to my daughters every day.

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

There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly. I think it's a misunderstanding on both sides. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

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

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?