Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
Wall Street Journal / Amy Chua
13-Jan-2011 (2 comments)

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids.  They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too.  Well, I can tell them, because I've done it.  Here are some things my daughters were never allowed to do:

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Esfand Aashena

This is funny! It is universal to immigrant families!

by Esfand Aashena on

I like this part; Second, Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

As far as Iranian families I think both inside and outside Iran the Iranian kids feel the other way!  It seems they're constantly wanting something more from the parents! 

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yolanda

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by yolanda on

Wow! What an article.......it sounds like a satire, child abuse, & child humiliation.......but it is probably true!