The Differences Between a Tiger Mother & a Tiger Moth Begin With the Fact That One of Them Makes You Want to Say, "Er, that doesn't seem right to me."

Since biology precludes me from becoming a "tiger mother", at least in the technical sense, perhaps I shouldn't pass any judgments on this style of parenting. That said, there is at least one particular element of Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother that demonstrates that she's a failure as a parent, her disappointment over the handmade birthday card she received from her children. If Chua's methods are so successful, her children would have found a way to earn the money to buy a card. All they would have needed to do is make a recording of the musical pieces they were expected by their mother to master and post them on iTunes. Since iTunes shares 70% of revenue with the content provider, each download would net them about 70-cents. At that rate, they would need to sell only four or five downloads to buy a card. Surely, the children of a "tiger mother" have the ability...er, maybe that's crazy.