RAISING CHILDREN
How To Guide Our Children And Not Put Unnecessary Expectations On Them
What we want in life may not necessarily be what they want in life
The most typical thing you’d hear of when talking about Asian parents is the crazy amount of expectations they’d put on their children, right off from the moment they are born. Before they even take their first blink, the parents would have already planned out the kid’s entire life.
From the subjects he’d study, the major he’d be doing, the type of wife he’ll marry, the career he’ll have, etc. all the way until he dies.
It’s very stereotypical but with everything that’s a stereotype, there’s always an ounce of truth in there somewhere. That’s how the stereotyping starts, doesn’t it? And to be honest, I’ve seen enough of that behaviour from Asian parents to tell you that most of the time, it is true.
Personally, I was very fortunate to have Asian parents that didn’t fit that mold.
My parents never put crazy expectations on me or my siblings when we were kids. It’s not to say that there wasn’t any expectations at all because there were but it was never unrealistic. And I’m forever grateful to them for that.
