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

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

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

Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.

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.

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.