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ParticipantAnd I’d love to see what happens when those precious overachieving children hit majority. I predict Supermom will find fault with their every accomplishment … with their majors, class schedules, fashion choices, hairstyles, retirement account asset allocations (gotta start when you’re young), MCAT/LSAT/GMAT scores … then moving on to career path, choice of peer-reviewed journals, sons-in-law (including excruciating details of family background), grandchildren, grandchildren’s prenatal enrichment, school district, choice of hard-surface flooring, body mass index … “I can’t believe you got a fixed-rate mortgage. Greenspan said ARMs are better! Idiot! Do you want to be a landless peasant?”
Her kids will be faced with an unenviable dilemma: endure her in shared misery, or let her suffer and die alone. (That is, if Supermom doesn’t cut off contact on her own initiative.) Sadly I know dutiful Asian children who’ve made the second choice.
I can hear you saying: “Big deal, that sounds like plenty of overbearing, controlling moms of any ethnicity.” Bingo. There are plenty of exemplars of Asian motherhood, from Guanyin to Empress Dowager Cixi. This is just one particularly dysfunctional example.
ParticipantAnd I’d love to see what happens when those precious overachieving children hit majority. I predict Supermom will find fault with their every accomplishment … with their majors, class schedules, fashion choices, hairstyles, retirement account asset allocations (gotta start when you’re young), MCAT/LSAT/GMAT scores … then moving on to career path, choice of peer-reviewed journals, sons-in-law (including excruciating details of family background), grandchildren, grandchildren’s prenatal enrichment, school district, choice of hard-surface flooring, body mass index … “I can’t believe you got a fixed-rate mortgage. Greenspan said ARMs are better! Idiot! Do you want to be a landless peasant?”
Her kids will be faced with an unenviable dilemma: endure her in shared misery, or let her suffer and die alone. (That is, if Supermom doesn’t cut off contact on her own initiative.) Sadly I know dutiful Asian children who’ve made the second choice.
I can hear you saying: “Big deal, that sounds like plenty of overbearing, controlling moms of any ethnicity.” Bingo. There are plenty of exemplars of Asian motherhood, from Guanyin to Empress Dowager Cixi. This is just one particularly dysfunctional example.
ParticipantAnd I’d love to see what happens when those precious overachieving children hit majority. I predict Supermom will find fault with their every accomplishment … with their majors, class schedules, fashion choices, hairstyles, retirement account asset allocations (gotta start when you’re young), MCAT/LSAT/GMAT scores … then moving on to career path, choice of peer-reviewed journals, sons-in-law (including excruciating details of family background), grandchildren, grandchildren’s prenatal enrichment, school district, choice of hard-surface flooring, body mass index … “I can’t believe you got a fixed-rate mortgage. Greenspan said ARMs are better! Idiot! Do you want to be a landless peasant?”
Her kids will be faced with an unenviable dilemma: endure her in shared misery, or let her suffer and die alone. (That is, if Supermom doesn’t cut off contact on her own initiative.) Sadly I know dutiful Asian children who’ve made the second choice.
I can hear you saying: “Big deal, that sounds like plenty of overbearing, controlling moms of any ethnicity.” Bingo. There are plenty of exemplars of Asian motherhood, from Guanyin to Empress Dowager Cixi. This is just one particularly dysfunctional example.
ParticipantAnd I’d love to see what happens when those precious overachieving children hit majority. I predict Supermom will find fault with their every accomplishment … with their majors, class schedules, fashion choices, hairstyles, retirement account asset allocations (gotta start when you’re young), MCAT/LSAT/GMAT scores … then moving on to career path, choice of peer-reviewed journals, sons-in-law (including excruciating details of family background), grandchildren, grandchildren’s prenatal enrichment, school district, choice of hard-surface flooring, body mass index … “I can’t believe you got a fixed-rate mortgage. Greenspan said ARMs are better! Idiot! Do you want to be a landless peasant?”
Her kids will be faced with an unenviable dilemma: endure her in shared misery, or let her suffer and die alone. (That is, if Supermom doesn’t cut off contact on her own initiative.) Sadly I know dutiful Asian children who’ve made the second choice.
I can hear you saying: “Big deal, that sounds like plenty of overbearing, controlling moms of any ethnicity.” Bingo. There are plenty of exemplars of Asian motherhood, from Guanyin to Empress Dowager Cixi. This is just one particularly dysfunctional example.
ParticipantAnd I’d love to see what happens when those precious overachieving children hit majority. I predict Supermom will find fault with their every accomplishment … with their majors, class schedules, fashion choices, hairstyles, retirement account asset allocations (gotta start when you’re young), MCAT/LSAT/GMAT scores … then moving on to career path, choice of peer-reviewed journals, sons-in-law (including excruciating details of family background), grandchildren, grandchildren’s prenatal enrichment, school district, choice of hard-surface flooring, body mass index … “I can’t believe you got a fixed-rate mortgage. Greenspan said ARMs are better! Idiot! Do you want to be a landless peasant?”
Her kids will be faced with an unenviable dilemma: endure her in shared misery, or let her suffer and die alone. (That is, if Supermom doesn’t cut off contact on her own initiative.) Sadly I know dutiful Asian children who’ve made the second choice.
I can hear you saying: “Big deal, that sounds like plenty of overbearing, controlling moms of any ethnicity.” Bingo. There are plenty of exemplars of Asian motherhood, from Guanyin to Empress Dowager Cixi. This is just one particularly dysfunctional example.
ParticipantThese days I’d say networking and people skills are key to getting even the first job out of college … not to mention prestigious internships.
Test scores, GPA, education, etc., give you a better chance of establishing those essential connections and recommendations. But they’re not enough in and of themselves.
ParticipantThese days I’d say networking and people skills are key to getting even the first job out of college … not to mention prestigious internships.
Test scores, GPA, education, etc., give you a better chance of establishing those essential connections and recommendations. But they’re not enough in and of themselves.
ParticipantThese days I’d say networking and people skills are key to getting even the first job out of college … not to mention prestigious internships.
Test scores, GPA, education, etc., give you a better chance of establishing those essential connections and recommendations. But they’re not enough in and of themselves.
ParticipantThese days I’d say networking and people skills are key to getting even the first job out of college … not to mention prestigious internships.
Test scores, GPA, education, etc., give you a better chance of establishing those essential connections and recommendations. But they’re not enough in and of themselves.
ParticipantThese days I’d say networking and people skills are key to getting even the first job out of college … not to mention prestigious internships.
Test scores, GPA, education, etc., give you a better chance of establishing those essential connections and recommendations. But they’re not enough in and of themselves.
ParticipantI too think that balance is important … Those catty social cliques are a “distraction” in high school, but they live on in the adult workplace. I think it’s important to learn how to deal with those power games without being consumed by them.
Isolating your kids from frivolous “mainstream” pop culture doesn’t do them any favors either. How can you market to the mainstream culture without understanding it? How can you make sound investment decisions without understanding consumer sentiment and investor psychology?
And music lessons … that’s a subject for another post entirely. Suffice it to say that IMO piano is left-brained and single-threaded, while guitar is right-brained and multithreaded. If you want your kid to grow up with half a brain, restrict him/her to piano. Better yet, restrict them to classical works written by dead guys in powdered wigs and silk stockings.
ParticipantI too think that balance is important … Those catty social cliques are a “distraction” in high school, but they live on in the adult workplace. I think it’s important to learn how to deal with those power games without being consumed by them.
Isolating your kids from frivolous “mainstream” pop culture doesn’t do them any favors either. How can you market to the mainstream culture without understanding it? How can you make sound investment decisions without understanding consumer sentiment and investor psychology?
And music lessons … that’s a subject for another post entirely. Suffice it to say that IMO piano is left-brained and single-threaded, while guitar is right-brained and multithreaded. If you want your kid to grow up with half a brain, restrict him/her to piano. Better yet, restrict them to classical works written by dead guys in powdered wigs and silk stockings.
ParticipantI too think that balance is important … Those catty social cliques are a “distraction” in high school, but they live on in the adult workplace. I think it’s important to learn how to deal with those power games without being consumed by them.
Isolating your kids from frivolous “mainstream” pop culture doesn’t do them any favors either. How can you market to the mainstream culture without understanding it? How can you make sound investment decisions without understanding consumer sentiment and investor psychology?
And music lessons … that’s a subject for another post entirely. Suffice it to say that IMO piano is left-brained and single-threaded, while guitar is right-brained and multithreaded. If you want your kid to grow up with half a brain, restrict him/her to piano. Better yet, restrict them to classical works written by dead guys in powdered wigs and silk stockings.
ParticipantI too think that balance is important … Those catty social cliques are a “distraction” in high school, but they live on in the adult workplace. I think it’s important to learn how to deal with those power games without being consumed by them.
Isolating your kids from frivolous “mainstream” pop culture doesn’t do them any favors either. How can you market to the mainstream culture without understanding it? How can you make sound investment decisions without understanding consumer sentiment and investor psychology?
And music lessons … that’s a subject for another post entirely. Suffice it to say that IMO piano is left-brained and single-threaded, while guitar is right-brained and multithreaded. If you want your kid to grow up with half a brain, restrict him/her to piano. Better yet, restrict them to classical works written by dead guys in powdered wigs and silk stockings.
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