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This is so true. I'm allowed to do a lot of stuff on the list (although my extra-curriculars are all academic-ish: Mock Trial, Mu Alpha Theta, Acadec, marching band...) though. I also didn't get any of the praise and lavish admiration and whatever. And I wouldn't know my parents' motivation. And I've gotten a B before, and know other Chinese kids who have gotten Bs before. Not that I didn't feel absolutely horrible about it, but still... Pretty accurate.
"In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70% of the Western mothers said either that 'stressing academic success is not good for children' or that 'parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun.' By contrast, roughly 0% of the Chinese mothers felt the same way. Instead, the vast majority of the Chinese mothers said that... if children did not excel at school then there was 'a problem.'"
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