There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
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.
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.
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