Cobra Parenting

You've heard of "helicopter parents"....how about the weaponized version (thus the reference to the Cobra military helicopter gunship)?

From a profile of the classical pianist Lang Lang's return to performing in the New York Times:

"His father pushed him relentlessly, Mr. Lang wrote in his 2008 memoir, “Journey of a Thousand Miles” — and even urged Mr. Lang to kill himself after he was dropped by his first teacher in Beijing. “Die now rather than live in shame,” Mr. Lang recalled his father saying. Mr. Lang’s father thrust a bottle of pills at him and told him to swallow them all before ordering him to jump off their balcony.

Mr. Lang wrote that he almost gave up the piano then and there — punching the wall to hurt his hands, and giving up playing for months. But the moment of madness passed; father and son reconciled;"

At what price fame?