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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.

If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.