There is a whole lot of chatter about being a Tiger mom these days.  I think all this air play is a result of some very upset Western Moms. But not for the reasons you think.
Here are the real reasons:

Reason: #1. We are really just plain jealous that our kids did not make it to Carnegie
Hall, did not get a perfect SAT score or get into Princeton. And it isn’t because our kids aren’t smart. This leads to:

Reason: #2. We are mad because we know that the real reason our kids did not excel is because we did not have the time or discipline to make them practice and study. I mean really, Tiger Mom sat with her daughter while she practiced the violin for 4-5 hours. Jill tried the violin and I could barely take 15 minutes and had to leave and go to the next room to watch Oprah. I can’t remember how many times I had to tell her to keep the noise down or go outside so I could hear Dr. Phil tell me how to be a better parent. God bless Tiger mom if she could do 4 hours on a daily basis. Seems to me she should get a medal for that. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment, forget the darn kid, Tiger the mom should be getting hazard pay. I wouldn’t want to listen to anyone to do anything musical for 4 hours, day after day after day, and that includes Michael Buble and Paul McCartney. We are kind of lazy when it comes to anything that requires too much of an effort or time commitment.

Reason #3: So it wasn’t enough that she pushed her kids and that her methods proved effective (one did play Carnegie Hall). Now she writes a book and gloats! We hate that shit. We are kind of lazy and would never take the time to write a book about anything.

Reason #4: The book is soooo controversial and successful, for the above reasons. It is all our own fault as we have made her famous and put her on TV shows and quoted her in the Wall Street Journal. If we had been busy teaching, mentoring and monitoring our children’s  study habits and music lessons just like the Tiger mom, we would not have had the time or interest to sit back and comment on her book. In other words, her book would have ended up in the $1.00 bin in a few weeks but because we have nothing better to do than point our finger, we made her famous. We hate her for making us make her famous. We are kind of lazy. We watch TV and use Facebook, all of which requires very little effort but it does let us gossip endlessly about anyone who is really doing anything productive.  And a by- product of all this gossiping is fame for the gossiped upon subject.

Reason #5: Our kids don’t want to study or practice-ohh the pain and agony. We just don’t have the constitution to fight with our children and teens. There was not always the case for Western parents.  I remember as a child saying to my Dad  “I don’t want to study”  and he promptly whacked me upside the head and said “I don’t care what you want-you probably didn’t want a whack in the head either but you got one and you’ll get another if you don’t go study right now”.  I studied, not because I wanted to, but he was right that I didn’t want another whack in the head, so chances were he was also right about my need to study. But even if he was wrong, I still didn’t want another whack in the head so I continued to study from that day forward. We didn’t argue or negotiate with our parents back in the good old days. We followed orders. Western moms used to be more like a generals and less like friends and even if they were not prone to carry out corporal punishments, they had henchmen dads who knew the value of a good whack and they never cared if they were liked by their kids. We are kind of lazy and fighting with the kids about homework or piano lessons is so stressful and exhausting it is just easier to let them not do it.

Reason #6. After all the strict upbringing and apparent lack of fun, Tiger moms kids still like her. Or at least they pretend to which is the same when you are dealing with kids.  My kids would have thrown me under the bus. I would love if my kids pretended to like me, even some of the time. But we are kind of lazy when it comes to demanding respect and love. We want them to want to love and respect us, we really do. In the old days, it wasn’t an option, but it took a lot of love and respect from the parents towards the children to be in a position to require respect and love in return. We are kind of lazy when it comes to respect and love-it takes so much work and time and it is just easier to buy them an iphone and a game- boy.

Reason # 7. When all else fails remember Tiger moms and dads will eat their young. The young don’t always know or remember this so it helps if you remind them every once in awhile.  Even if  you are lazy like all the other Western moms and dads, put on this game face and make those kids study!