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Were among the best in the nation. kenneth lynn s family also moved to a better school district, in a neighborhood slightly out of their means which meant his father worked three jobs. that put enormous pressure on him to succeed. if you don t succeed then you are hurting and letting down your family. bringing shame? not just bringing shame. your parents are so invested in you and your succeed and when you don t succeed, it injuries them. i think even children pick up that kind of energy and start feeling responsibility. that s for sure. a responsibility that sometimes means giving up that thing you really want to do in life. michelle chi a s case it was school sports. watch. your mother made you quit the lacrosse team. she did, yes. why? because she thought that i need to study for my s.a.t.s by mun j my junior year and i wasn t able to play lacrosse for one season. how did that make you feel ....
Sfl very upset. you did it. i did it because i had to respect my parents. respect is very, very big. michelle said sports was the reward for doing well in school and to doing well in piano and violin competitions. while all of them felt pressure to succeed they emphasized how deeply their parents loved them and how that pressure they felt was really about respecting their parents and wanting to do well to show them that they could. you know, what s interesting is that amy says in her book, my western friends who consider themselves strict make their children practice instruments for 30 minutes a day. chinese mother, the first hour is the easy part, it s hours two and three that s tough. all of them laughed as a result. she says toward the end of the book that western parenting is about building self-esteem while chinese parenting is about not letting up. she said that building self-esteem, what we do is by telling people that you did a good job, even when you didn t. ....