In her book, Chua explores how her upbringing influenced her own parenting choices. The term ‘tiger parenting’ has since become widely used by the general public and academic literature.
Chua depicts and advocates for the image of strict, authoritarian, controlling parents whose overwhelming priority is to ensure their children’s success and top achievement. The term ‘tiger mother’ was coined and made popular by Yale law professor and daughter of Chinese immigrants, Amy Chua, in her 2011 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. The style of parenting tends to have more critics than advocates among the public and researchers. It compares a parent who is demanding and prioritizes a child’s achievement over virtually everything else to a tiger-a stealthy and ruthless jungle-dwelling feline. ‘Tiger parenting’ is a term for a strict, controlling style of parenting.
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