Meaning of tiger mother | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woman who is fiercely protective of one or more people in her care.
2. A mother who drives her child or children very hard to succeed in school or in extracurricular studies, such as learning a musical instrument.

Examples

“[…] I spent all last⟳ night on my knees, beseeching the Great Physician to hear⟳ me and heal my boy. […] but the instinct of the tiger-mother is tearing my heart to pieces […].”

“When she was in her busy mood, domineering and protecting me, I used to think⟳ what a dolls' generalissimo she must have⟳ been in childhood. "And where you're concerned," she would say⟳, "I'm a tiger-mother and a regular Fury. […]"”

“"My sister calls us 'tiger mothers', because we're so protective," she says.”

“I would like⟳ to see⟳ Oxford and Cambridge turned into graduate universities entirely devoted to research⟳, which at a stroke would cool the ardour of the "tiger mothers" of Holland Park⟳ and Hampstead determined to set⟳ their three-year-olds on the path to Oxbridge, whatever the human cost⟳.”

“If you have⟳ tiger mother tendencies, the very worst thing you can do is visit⟳ China. It will only increase⟳ your determination to squeeze⟳ some achievement out of your young.”

“Tiger mothers and $125-an-hour tutors proliferate, and parents scrimp and struggle⟳ to pay⟳ up to $40,000 a year in tuition to private secondary schools that then put⟳ them on the spot for supplemental donations, lest the soccer field turn⟳ brown and the Latin club languish.”

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