She was the original Tiger Mum whose bestseller promoted impossibly strict parenting. Now, a decade on, Amy Chua reveals... 'How I realised if I didn't change, my daughter would hate me for ever'

She was vilified as 'the worst mother on the planet' when more than a decade ago, her book Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother, laid out in detail Amy Chua's ultra-hardline parenting methods.