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Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

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.

Given the news we all read or hear about, it's actually made me a stronger parent - I'm not a 'helicopter parent,' but I am very aware of local and world events and want to teach them what's right and wrong.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

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

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.