Jenette McCurdy

See, I never wanted kids until kids started playing hard to get.

Thank you.

When I read Amy Chua's Tiger Mom method, I felt really pretty angry, actually, that she was claiming that this method was superior to other methods.

How does your method work?

Well, my method of raising happy kids is one that's based on about 50 years of really great, solid scientific research.

I feel so short.

My feet aren't touching.

I can swing them around.

Oh, yeah.

This is good.

Yeah.

No, I definitely don't hate my mom.

I think she was a really complicated and nuanced person, and I try to kind of articulate her to the best of my ability in all of her many shades and colors.

To me, her humor is really... She could say things that were so wild and at times abusive, but she just had a certain cadence and a rhythm that was so humorous, so I tried to capture that.

But I certainly didn't hate her, and I think...

I think that's why it was so important for me to write this book, because getting to the place where I was finally glad and relieved that she was dead, it took me so long to be able to accept that reality.

And I also think that's something that people

I didn't hear anybody talking about.

I didn't hear anybody saying, you know, that the sort of honest reality of what their experience with their parent was if they had a similar one.

It feels like a thing that you can't say because society doesn't accept it.