Tiger mother (disambiguation)
A tiger mother (or more popularly tiger mom) is a strict or demanding mother who controls her children and pushes them to be successful academically.
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Tiger mother may also refer to:
Literature
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the 2011 book by Amy Chua that popularised the term
Television shows
- Tiger Mom (TV series), a 2015 Chinese series
- Tiger Mom Blues, a 2017 Hong Kong series
- Tiger Mum, a 2014–2015 Singaporean series
gollark: I mean, there's the issue of... their disregard for human rights? I care about that even if they don't affect other countries too badly directly.
gollark: It works better on philosophers, since you can steal their wallet while they're distracted thinking about it.
gollark: They probably can't/won't eternally torture you, but there's a *possibility* of that infinite harm which is reduced by giving them £100, and if you accept the Pascal's Wager logic you should do that.
gollark: There's actually another similar thing, Pascal's *Mugging*, in which someone comes up to you and says "give me £100 or I will eternally torture you after you die".
gollark: But there are an infinitely large number of possible gods, and some do weirder things like "punish/reward entirely at random", "have no interest whatsoever in humanity", "punish people who believe in other gods", and all that, and Pascal's Wager just *ignores* those.
See also
- Authoritarian parenting, a restrictive, punishment-heavy parenting style
- Helicopter parent, a parent who pays extremely close attention to a child's or children's experiences and problems
- Hong Kong Kids phenomenon, referring to children who are regarded as spoilt and overly dependent
- Jewish mother, a stereotype of a nagging mother or wife
- Kyōiku mama, a Japanese "education mum"
- Stage mother, sometimes used as a negative stereotype
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