15 Facts About Tiger parenting

Tiger parenting is a form of strict parenting, whereby parents are highly invested in ensuring their children's success.

Western Tiger parenting is largely permissive while Chinese parents believe that arming children with in-demand job skills such as mathematical and scientific proficiency, strong work habits, and inner confidence prepares them best for the future.

Tiger parenting parents emphasize a commitment towards excellence in academia and award-winning non-academic achievements such as performing classical music instruments.

Many Chinese tiger parenting families have a huge emphasis on academic achievement.

The strong emphasis on high academic achievement is often seen as a source of stress for Western parents while Chinese parents see the stress of academic achievement on their children as a sign of good Tiger parenting reinforced by the entire Confucian cultural value system.

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Tiger parenting parents enforce high expectations regarding their children's academic performance.

Critics of the tiger parenting argue that this approach will restrict their children's ability to discover their individual talents and passions thus denying the child a sense of belonging, self-esteem, and purpose.

Tiger parenting parents perceive a narrow definition of success that is rooted solely in a high level of academic and intellectual achievement.

Tiger parenting mothers incorporate classical music training or extracurricular enrichment activities such as joining a sports team, including those with competitive structures and awards systems to bolster their child's university entrance application.

Advocates suggest a strict approach to Tiger parenting produces an exceptionally high proportion of top performers – children who display academic excellence across the board with great musical ability and professional success later in life.

Children raised with a less supportive type of Tiger parenting have developed chronic mental health and psychiatric problems such as anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and contemplation of suicide.

Tiger parenting has been blamed for high rates of suicide in East Asia, particularly South Korea, which has some of the highest suicide rates in the developed world.

Use of violence within Tiger parenting is common in many Asian cultures, including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Outside of Asia, violent Tiger parenting is recognized as child abuse, but is considered parental devotion within cultures where it is accepted, such as in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Studies published by the Handbook of Child Psychology have shown that children under tiger parenting were rated as less helpful and less popular by their teachers and classmates.