You won’t expect anything less, even if your child’s heart is set on something entirely different from what you had in mind. You always wanted to be the gold medal gymnast - your child will fulfill that dream for you. Since you are the master tiger ruler, you determine what’s important for your kids. Looking back on it, it was ridiculous, but boy did that baby sleep 15 hours a night!” “My in-laws were looking after him while we went out for a date, and I wrote out two pages of instructions and scheduling for him, all surrounding what to do for bedtime. “When our first was a baby, we had the most insane bedtime routine and schedule,” she recalls.

Shannon Moyer-Szemenyei, an artist and a parenting blogger at Sweet Stella’s, says she sticks to a pretty tight schedule.

You’ve Got a Schedule And They’d Better Stick to it.

There isn’t any time for that in your child’s schedule. Forget the birthday parties, sleepover and play dates. Your child needs to stay focused on being perfect always. Friends will only end up being a distraction.

All work And no Play Isn’t Dull - It’s Smart.It has to be this way for everything to be perfect! Just make sure you keep those rules well documented because when you have so many even you might even have a hard time remembering them all. Your rules list is a mile long, of course. Rules Are Not Meant to Be Broken, And You Have a Lot of Them.Perfection must be achieved in school, on the soccer field, at home - yes, everywhere - and why not? It doesn’t matter about doing one’s best because obviously your child’s best wasn’t good enough! Tiger moms never settle for less. If you’re upset your child’s A- minus wasn’t an A or an A+, you might just be a tiger mom. Everything Had Better Be Perfect - or Else.So how do you know if you’re a tiger mom? Look for these signs:

“Tiger Mom gets results because she instills in the child a drive to succeed and never give up.” “In my home, a ‘B’ was the same as an ‘F’ and being competitive was like breathing,” she says. Family therapist Lee Reyes-Fournier knows firsthand about being raised by a tiger mom. While it quickly became a topic of humor, the “tiger mother” method of parenting is real. Did Amy Chua’s “ Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” sound eerily familiar to you? In her book, Chua details her intense and questionable parenting style and her belief children should be forced to succeed no matter what the personal price.

A tiger mother