I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

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.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

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

Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

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