Article in WSJ about Chinese Mother's and their children (school, major, students)

[qdogfball]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...528698754.html

Interesting piece and different thought process from my own regarding education (and training) of children.

"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 they believe their children can be "the best" students, that "academic achievement reflects successful parenting," and that if children did not excel at school then there was "a problem" and parents "were not doing their job."

My children have NOT been "forced" into learning/doing things, but sometimes I feel like it would be better for them so that they can get better GPA's.

[Momma_bear]

There is already a rather long discussion here:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/paren...-superior.html

[Lamborgotti]

Rogue apostrophe.