Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was Chinas golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by todays standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in "barbarians" from the steppe.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.