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My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

Apparently, I used to bite, scratch and growl at people when I was young, so my parents named me 'Tiger.'

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

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.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

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

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.