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Originally Posted by filtherton
You know, strict about, say, not eating ice cream at every meal but permissive about bed time enforcement when said kid is sneaking in some quality reading time after lights out. Part of being a good parent is about knowing when to bend and when to remain rigid.
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I'm sorry, I was being facetious. I should have dropped the "No shit, Sherlock" line instead. The kind painfully obvious and incredibly broad "parenting advice" in here is hurting even my tiny brain. Is anybody else here flabbergasted by the idea that life is an exercise in compromise and doing cost/benefit analysis to make smart choices? This advice applies to dealing with in-laws, asking for a threesome and how you haggled to buy your new minivan.
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Catering to other Asian stereotypes:
I wonder if all this Asian-demand-for-excellence (society->work->school->parents->kids) has anything to do with why super-productive Japan's
suicide rate is twice that of the United States'. You'd think that the nearly universal access to guns/booze/drugs/suicide-by-cop that the US would be closer, but we're just plain mediocre... even when we kill ourselves. Once again, Those Industrious Asians (TM) best us in all aspects of life (and apparently death).
But, as Jinn pointed out, who brags about that?