Why Your Successful Child Is Still Unhappy: What Tiger Moms Get Right, and What They Miss

Why Your Successful Child Is Still Unhappy

What Tiger Moms Get Right, and What They Miss

Your child did everything right.

They worked hard.

They achieved.

They became capable, independent, successful.

So why do they still seem tired, guarded, or distant?

Why does success not bring the closeness you imagined it would?

Why does everything look fine, yet something feels unfinished?

This book speaks to the question many tiger moms think about quietly, but rarely say out loud.

Written with honesty, respect, and deep emotional intelligence, Why Your Successful Child Is Still Unhappy is not an attack on discipline or high standards. It is a clear-eyed exploration of what tiger moms get right, and the hidden cost no one warned them about.

Sam Choo shows how love expressed through preparation, pressure, and performance creates strong, capable children, but can also leave them struggling with rest, self trust, and emotional closeness. Through calm reflection and relatable insight, this book explains why obedience can replace inner voice, why exhaustion can exist alongside achievement, and why distance often appears without conflict.

Most importantly, it offers a way forward.

Without guilt.

Without blame.

Without abandoning strength.

This book shows how tiger moms can evolve their role, from control to presence, from pressure to trust, and from being needed to being chosen. It reveals how emotional safety builds stronger adults, not softer ones, and how parenting continues quietly and powerfully long after children grow up.

If you are proud of what your child has achieved, but uneasy about what still feels missing, this book is for you.

Not to undo the past.

But to complete it.

Ref: B725. This book contains 15,810 words and more than 154 pages.