My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their future. For the most part, I trust them to make the right choices for themselves. I always look forward to seeing them, and I love just watching them sleep. What a great relationship.
Amy ChuaTags: humor
Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.
Amy ChuaWhat Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.
Amy ChuaAs it happens, the first souvenir I bought was a dried llama fetus. Revolting as it may sound, my poor stillborn llama is actually rather cute. Frozen in the fetal position and dried stiff like beef jerky, it has the gentle, smiling face of a camel and plenty of soft, if slightly formaldehyde-scented, fur. I bought the llama fetus partly because it horrified me, but also for educational purposes, so that my eight-year-old daughter Sophia could show it to her class. (She refused.)
Bolivians buy llama fetuses to ward off evil in its many guises. Bolivian miners—who, with a life expectancy of forty-five years, basically live their entire adult lives dying—look to llama fetuses for protection against dynamite explosions and the lung-destroying silicon particulates they inhale all day. Downing high-proof alcohol also helps. “The purer the alcohol, the purer the minerals I find,” one miner told me wryly.
There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.
Amy ChuaTags: humorous
As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.
Amy ChuaTags: humorous
All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.
Amy ChuaThe truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.
Amy ChuaNothing is fun until you're good at it.
Amy ChuaThe fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.
Amy ChuaTags: children health chinese parenting mindsets
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