Melissa: I hope that the book kind of demonstrates [for instance, the positive effect of my mother] telling me all the time that I was the best and that if I didn’t get an “A,” it was because I didn’t push myself hard enough, because I was at least as smart as anyone else. He was so larger-than-life, had so much charisma. This book has provided me an opportunity to recap, which has been such a blessing. In the book she feels hard. And I remember Melissa’s book, but it was when I really sat down to go promote [my own book], that I had the realization. She attended Harvard University from where she got … She was an actress,... March 25, I majored in economics and I have a whole show about money, [sic] so it’s just amazing that I didn’t connect those dots. And Hollywood, if that’s what you want, will be waiting for you or you can go to Stanford and you can come back and you can go on auditions. I think we’re missing something in America. My mother would react violently. Melissa reminds me that she’s only like 10 years older than me or something. She works for the Fox Business Network. She was so hysterical. Was this really because of fear of reprisal from their mother? Prior to that, Melissa is also an author of a book entitled Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir. I’m fascinated that you, Melissa Gilbert (Prairie Tale: A Memoir) and Alison Arngrim (Confessions of a Prairie Bitch) have all written books. As a kid, you’re a kid. [Michael Landon] never treated us like kids and as a result we didn’t [view] ourselves as kids. Melissa: You know, I actually don’t. I know she felt like she didn’t have value. And as fantastic as he was, he was also an incredibly sure business person. And there’s no reason to hide this like I’m ashamed of something. Melissa Francis who is conservative journalist of the television was born on 12th December 1972. He was at work a lot. So [yes] I think that being a kid in Hollywood can be really positive. And actually there are a lot of people who have asked me that question. And the way I said no, he just kind of turned and walked away. Melissa’s final class grade, a highly respectable A-, sent her mother into a rage. But we had sent so many preview copies out to media, for stories that I feel like  someone may have been trying to reach out to her, to get her comment. I really thought that that would be a wakeup call for her. Melissa: It really came to a head when Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother [by Amy Chua] reached critical mass and I read about it in the Wall Street Journal like everybody else. Elsewhere, Morning star/ Evening star, A Year in the Life, ALF, Hardball. Melissa Francis on what she learned from 'Little House on the Prairie' - Duration: 6:02. I mean she’s teaching reality shows, she’s got a cookbook coming out. You can’t make these decisions. In addition to that, she had also worked as a co-anchor for the CNBC. The real world is full of enablers, and sometimes they’re the parent we love and rely on. But it wasn’t about – it was never about money for any of us; it was that she needed to finally treat my sister like a daughter or else I wasn’t going to let her be a part of my life. And you know, when you’re running a small business, that is your whole life, you’re the guy who’s in charge. HMB: As dark and awful as moments in your life were, that moment seemed to be a turning point in your relationships with your mother like, “Who is this person? Melissa: Yeah. I sat down and really thought about it, and I thought, no one in my life knows anything about this. So they would reach out to me to do things and I would not do it. The Little House family gets together and they’ll do an engagement or something. And the moment that I turned my back on her and said, “I’m not going to let you have that unless you do this,” then [for her], I didn’t have any value. Not because I feel bad about myself. Melissa: Oh, yeah, I know. HMB: I watched the Joy Behar show interview you did recently for the book tour. Jason Bateman was really my contemporary and I had such a giant crush on him. I had an awakening, and realized that she was sort of crazy. I thought that I meant so much to her that me saying [what I did] would result [in an epiphany] for her. At the beginning of her career, Melissa fist made her television debut before her first birthday. And I said no. We didn’t tell him. But anyway, she came out and it was overwhelming. Since then, she has been running her own show titled Money with Melissa Francis. But it all went back to how many times she had loomed over me. And my dad, he always felt like acting was a hobby and it was cute and charming that we did it, but that acting was something my mom wanted us to do [like] the equivalent of ice skating or horseback riding and all the other activities we did. You know, I feel like I am the product of the extreme version of that tiger mom, the Hollywood version of the tiger mom which is a stage mom. I just thought, “You’re insane.”  Luckily I was 16 years old at that time, and had my own identity. Part of writing this book, you asked me why [I did] earlier, was the Tiger Mom thing and another was that when my oldest son was three he asked if my [husband’s mom] was my mom too. My sister and I would say that we never appealed to him because we knew that we would be alone with [our mother] the next day, which would be a thousand times worse. Melissa: I realized at that moment that [my mother] was really insane. (2) I believe that in situations like this, the existence of an older sibling makes the younger child feel safe. It’s like my mom who always hit us with an open hand, so it didn’t leave a bruise. Melissa: Yes. What I did not see at the time was how unhealthy that [behavior] is. On my own and you know, devoted all my waking time to training through this class. She first made her appearance in television by appearing in the commercials of Johnson & Johnson Shampoo. I needed to figure out how to get away [from her] and how to have my own life. We saw ourselves as workers, as actors. I mean, she had a million opportunities where she could have shown up [prior to that time]. You were the most successful drug she had. And it seems ridiculous to be scared, I’m an adult, she’s an adult. Your thoughtful words mean so much more than you know. Whether that’s your child or not, that’s not normal, and I think the industry rewards [this behavior]. She carried that [emotional burden] and disapproval with her everywhere she went. Melissa also has a younger sister named Tiffany Ann Francis who is mainly a commercial actress. I was taken right back to just being thrown down those stairs again [as a child]. The same encouragement and discipline has a totally different impact on each of them. She works for the Fox Business Network. And she asked me one day point blank, “Where is your mother?”  I didn’t really have an answer for her either. And she said to me, I had become a master of “not answering the question.”. Her other television credits includes The Ghost of Flight 401, Champions: A Love Story, Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love, Joe’s World, Mork and Mindy, When the Whistle Blows, Midnight Lace, A Gun in the House, Little House on the Prairie, Something About Amelia, Hotel, CBS School break Special, St. But when you’re eight years old, 18 is much older. I say in my book that Landon was, “a combination of God and Santa Claus.”  And he really was. Their childhood of good looks, talent, fortune and fame, which appear ideal to the outsider, was in reality a daily battle of Star Daughters versus Stage Mother. It’s a person like my mother. And [watching her relationship] with my sister, showed me that I didn’t want to [emulate] that. She is a regular panelist on FNC's afternoon talk … I would just love and hope and pray for anyone that reads the book to feel like they can learn from whatever has happened to them in the past, whatever challenge that they’ve had [that they] can have a joyful future and [sic] choose to be happy. I’ve heard from people who … I heard from my sister’s Kindergarten teacher who saw the book and somehow remembered that the sister of the child in the book was in her class and then she started to page through it and she was devastated, and started crying in the bookstore when she realized in the book, what happened to my sister. Melissa: Oh yeah. Born Vini Melissa Ann Francis on December 12, 1972, in Los Angeles, California, USA, Melissa is the daughter of a small businessman father and homemaker mother. And Melissa, she’s a cottage-industry. Everybody has their troubles and their traumas. I mean, it goes even further, I married somebody in finance. When you [book a job] you do feel invincible. She’s thought of so many things to do. Previous to that, Francis also served at the broadcast unit of CNET as a correspondent. In addition to her on-camera childhood, a repeating theme in Melissa’s memoir involves money; the money she earned during her childhood, the money she had to earn in her late teens and early twenties to finance college and the money her mother controlled, squandered and eventually hoarded from the entire family. We’re very close. I knew in my heart what an accomplishment [that A-] was and the fact that she didn’t think so, didn’t bother me. I knew I better come up with an answer really soon because he’s here asking. It can rob children of their feeling of value and their identity when they are not able to please the tiger mother. She grabbed at me really hard and shook me. It takes a lot to be successful. I will give my parents a lot of credit [in that regard]. Here it is.”, HMB: Yeah. It’s just I hope now that she’s [at peace and knows how much we loved her.]. HMB: The one thing I couldn’t glean –  I know your father’s still living. Now it’s so much more fashionable for people to you know, go into Harvard or wherever, there are a lot of kids that do that. All Right Reserved. I believed at that moment that she would go get help. And I say, “How would I leave, I couldn’t drive a car. And I don’t, you know, I don’t have any ill will. My closest friends have no idea. He wrote it, he executive produced it, directed it, and he acted in it. Melissa: It’s so hard to know. Melissa Francis was only eight years old when she won the role of a lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls on the world’s most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie. I think some of it is innate. But it can attract a certain type of you know, narcissistic, unstable person. Melissa: You know, in a way, it makes me laugh because we were never allowed to say that term.

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