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{{quote|''"This is the whip of love."''|'''Shigure, before throwing Kenichi into a training machine that would look more in place in a Saw movie''', ''[[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"She's poisoned my breakfast and dinner, she keeps hiding behind doors and attacking me when I open them, and this morning she threw a snake at me."''|'''Jack Cannon, on his mother''', ''[[The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon (Webcomic)|The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon]]''}}
 
A variation of parenting which believes that love can best be provided via schooling them in [[School of Hard Knocks|life's hard knocks]]. This is believed to make said offspring stronger. Sometimes it works and the kid grows up to be [[Badass]] but unable to [[Not Good Withwith People|display casual affection]]. However taken too far and the kid could end up an emotionally disturbed [[The Woobie]] or even worse [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] for the supernaturally powered variant.
 
If dished out to one particular child in the family, expect said child to feel like [[The Unfavourite]] compared to their other siblings. Can lead to a [["Well Done, Son" Guy]] moment if this turned out not to be the case.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple|History's Mightiest Disciple Kenichi]] gives poor Kenichi six masters, all of them incredibly brutal in their own way. All of them care a great deal about their disciple, but still put him to the point of nearly dying from his training on a daily basis. As the story continues, the teachers first take the training [[Up to Eleven]] for him to survive just the ruthless delinquents that come after him. When the Yami organization appears, however, the training goes [[Beyond the Impossible]].
* Guy's training methods in [[Naruto]]. Not to mention Itachi's behaviour towards Sasuke.
* [[Tenjho Tenge]] is the absolute master of this trope. From Mitsuomi's [[Aloof Big Brother]] status, Dogen's intention to create a [[Knight Templar Parent|"true warrior"]] using his eldest son, {{spoiler|Shin}} being locked up by his father to prevent him losing control of his powers to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious scene]] between himself and Mana in a hospital, its fair to say that [[Tough Love]] must be part of the school curriculum.
* In the third arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'', Satoko believes that her [[Evil Uncle]] abusing her is this.
** Well, not really... She uses this as an excuse against her friends' rightful concerns but no one believes it, not even her. {{spoiler|He is only looking for her late parents' money and plans to leave town as soon as he finds it, because the cops are after him due to his involvement in Rina's death.}} She's trying to hold off suspicion from social services and the police until he's done, but [[Abusive Parents|it's clear she]] [[Freak-Out|hates and fears him.]]
* [[Social Darwinist|The Emperor]] has this as his excuse for the way he "raises" his kids in [[Code Geass]]. According to him "people only become stronger through struggle" and he actively encourages his children's infighting to decide who will succeed him on the throne of Britannia.
* [[Badass Grandpa|Vice-Admiral Garp]] of ''[[One Piece]]'' is a firm advocate of the [[Tough Love]] principle. Just look at how he changed Helmeppo and Koby from cowards into legitimate badasses after taking them under his wing. It is also part of the reason why the [[Raised Byby Grandparents|hero]] is ''terrified'' of him.
* Let's not forget [[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]] where Genma Saotome absolutely ''loves'' doing this to poor Ranma by way of [[Training From Hell]].
* In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', Juri's father raised her this way after the death of her mother. Unfortunately, this accidentally made her into a [[Stepford Smiler]] who broke before she came home from the Digital World.
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* Was the title of a Season 5 episode of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].
** Attempted by [[Angel]]'s father. [[Self-Made Orphan|He took it rather badly.]]
* Arguably, also the case for [[The Woobie|Dean's]] upbringing by his father in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''
* A memorable example occurred in a season 6 episode of [[Friends]] with [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]'s character demonstrating [[Manly Tears]] whilst reminiscing with [[The Ditz|Rachel]] over his relationship with his father. Too bad this led to an excessive display of tears leading Rachel to dump him.
* Flashbacks in [[Psych]] explain that this was how [[Trickster Archetype|Shawn]] was raised by his dad after his mom left the family. His dad a law officer raised Shawn to have perfect eidetic memory, allowing him to recall objects and events to minute detail but this had the side effect of leaving Shawn [[Loners Are Freaks|socially awkward]]. However its not played for audience sympathy, Shawn is most definitely NOT [[The Woobie]]; being a [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|prankster]] to the highest form. In fact he uses his eidetic memory to run a scam as a fake psychic.
** Actually, Shawn's mom didn't leave until he was a senior in high school. Presumably she agree with Henry that training Shawn to be a detective was a good idea or at least didn't want to argue the point.
* [[Titus|Ken Titus]]. His trademark phrase was "Stop being a wussy!"
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* Bart Bass' parenting style of choice on ''[[Gossip Girl]]''.
* [[Scrubs|Dr. Cox]] loves doing this with almost all his interns.
* [[Malcolm in Thethe Middle|Lois and Hal's]] ''plan'' for Malcolm puts them squarely in this category. They plan on making sure that Malcolm never has a happy life as they think that this will give him the qualities needed for him to be America's greatest president.
* In [[Skins]] Season 5 both [[Life of the Party|Alo]] and [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|Nick's]] parents seem to believe that being tough on their sons will prevent them from becoming tearaways. Viewers might[[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] on whether or not this worked.
* On an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' Cuddy realizes that her mother pushed her to succeed because she saw potential in her more than her sister.
* Lorelai Gilmore of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' says that using tough love is the best way to get Rory to go back to Yale.
 
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'''Klaus''': Anything--being paralyzed for ''life''--would be an acceptable price for seeing what I have seen my son do today. Oh, ''yes''. }}
** Shortly thereafter, Gil has a plan that will work only if his father loves him. Troops show up to return him to his father's castle by force and Gil thinks -- oh yes, he loves me! Which proves quite justified.
* This may be the case for how Quaintana views how she raises her children in [[Drow TalesDrowtales]]. However her children (''not to mention readers of the comic'') view it as quite [[Abusive Parents|the opposite]].
** A milder example comes from Chrystel's attempts to mould Faen into a stronger person. [[Subverted Trope|It worked about as well as you'd expect]].
* Eric Sakai from ''[[Soul Symphony]]'', a sophomore in high school, was forced to start leaning to play violin by his grandparents when he was seven, was doing solo recitals at concert halls by twelve, and forced to start learning MORE string instruments by thirteen. He didn't want to, but it made him a [[Child Prodigy|prodigy.]]
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