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I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.

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.

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

I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.