I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.