Tiger Mom's daughter becomes "New Tiger in Town"

(CBS/What's Trending) Remember the Tiger Mom? Now, the cub is getting her chance to roar.

Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, the elder of Amy Chua's two daughters, has started a new blog called "New Tiger in Town" to chronicle the "cruel" life she's led growing up with a Tiger mother.

For those of you who don't remember Amy Chua, she's the Asian author who sparked controversy when an excerpt of her book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" was published in the Wall Street Journal. In the piece, Chua recounted the time that she verbally attacked her daughter and would not let her get up from the piano until her recital piece was perfect. Explaining her parenting technique, the Tiger Mother expanded on her no sleepover, no sports and no television rules and her tough love methods, which she called the traditional Asian style of parenting.

He book inspired others to talk about their experiences with their own Tiger mothers. Some stories talked about the deep emotional scars that the adults still held as a result of the verbal and some times physical abuse. Others just poked fun at the experience.

However, the 18-year-old, who will attend Harvard in the fall, paints a different picture on her blog. The teenager seems pretty happy with her youth. Despite not being able to go on playdates, she racked up 16,380 hours of social interaction through school so she doesn't feel that deprived. She even pokes fun at calling herself a "tiger cub," adding that it isn't a reference to the TV show "Gossip Girl" - not that she should know that since she isn't allowed to watch TV.

And, if you were ever in doubt whether the stories her mother wrote were completely real, Chua-Rubenfeld comments that the Sophia in the book is much more impressive than she is in real life. The blogger allows readers to ask her questions and seems to have inherited her mother's sarcastic tone. In response to one reader's comment about her mother's book, she wrote, "It's despicable to suggest her book is satirical, and I'm deeply traumatized. If you lay awake every night weeping over the charred remains of your stuffed animals, you'd be traumatized too. [edit: for the love of god, people, I'M KIDDING]."

We think this tiger will be okay out in the wild.