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March 13, 2024

If you grew up in the shadow of a Tiger Mom—or any parent who confused volume with virtue, who saw a B-minus as a moral failing—you don’t need me to finish that sentence. You already know how it ends: “I’m naggy for your own good.”

And that’s the rub, isn’t it? The Tiger Mom archetype. The 03/13 in my head—maybe it’s a deadline, a report card date, a competition result, or the day the silence finally broke. 24 years of “Did you study?” “Why only a 97?” “Sleep is for the weak, success is for the strong.”

Go call your mom. Or don’t. But go do the thing she always knew you could do. TigerMoms 24 03 13 CJ Miles Naggy For Your Own ...

Their terror. The terror of a world that will eat you alive if you are soft. The terror of watching their own immigrant or working-class dreams get deferred so far that they turned into pressure. The terror that you won’t be ready .

So they became the villain in your teenage diary. The one who took the door off the hinges. The one who said “practice again” when your fingers were bleeding. The one who called your art project “sloppy” when you thought it was brilliant.

There are some phrases that stick in your ribs like a bad cough you can’t shake. For me, lately, it’s been this jumble of words: TigerMoms. 24 03 13. CJ Miles. Naggy. For your own... March 13, 2024 If you grew up in

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You aren’t done yet either.

Not the cruelty. Not the screaming. Not the lack of hugs. But the consistency of expectation. The refusal to let you settle. The woman who looked at your half-finished life and said, “No. You have more in you.” The 03/13 in my head—maybe it’s a deadline,

But here on March 13, 2024—whatever that date means to you—I want to suggest something uncomfortable.

Here is what the children of Tiger Moms know but rarely admit: The nagging wasn’t about control. Not really. It was about terror.

24 years later. March 13th. A CJ Miles jump shot falling through the net at 2 AM in an empty gym, just because someone once told him he wasn’t done yet.