If children do not excel in school, there is a problem and parents are not doing their job. We spend ten times the amount of time drilling academics with their kids.
Skills learned the diligent, disciplined, confidence- expanding way.
1) higher dreams for children
2) higher regard for their children in knowing how much they can take
Obedience is considered among the highest virtues.
"prosperity can never last for three generations. " ... Not on my watch.
Not going to raise a soft, entitled child. Classical music. Achievement.
I like clear goals and clear ways of measuring success.
With me at her side, she practiced piano at least 90 min every day, including weekends. On lesson days we practiced twice as long. I never paid her a penny.
Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.
Nothing is fun until you're good at it.
I did well at law school by working psychotically hard.
"Everything valuable and worthwhile is difficult!"
I won't let her indulge her own inner doubts.
Chinese children practice ten hrs day
We Read to them for one hour ever night
Demand perfect grades bc they believe their child can get them. If not, the child did not work hard enough. Will then do 100s of practice tests with the child.
One of the worst things you can do for a child's self esteem is to let them give up.
Confidence comes from learning you can do something you thought you couldn't
Find a happy medium between:
Western: respect, individuality, pursue passions, support choice, positive reinforcement, nurturing environment. Spontaneity, freedom, discovery, experience.
Chinese: prepare children for future, and see what they're capable of, arming them with skills, work habits, & inner confidence that no one can ever take away.
Every day that you don't practice is a day that you're getting worse.
Childhood: something fleeting and to be enjoyed vs. training period, a time to build character and invest in the future.
Limits create happiness, not unchecked freedom.
World travel as a family
She was challenged on a new level. Stimulated and intrigued.
Easing up would've been selling her short
You have to be strong and find a way to get through this
Gave them a sense of their own abilities and of the value of excellence.
Lesson: she has a diff personality and you can't force her. She's a sweet girl, don't be so hard on her.
It goes so fast. Before you know it your children are grown and gone.
All the hours of labor, fighting, aggravation, and misery. For what? If the child hates it, why force it?
Focus on What's really important
You have to work to be great
I focused my eyes on lulu, taking her in. She's indomitable and wherever she ends up, she is going to be amazing
Choice. Is what it all comes down to. Westerners believe in choice. Chinese do not.
I'm a huge believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
Life is so short and so fragile, and we should be trying to get the most out of every breath, every fleeting moment. But what does it mean to live life to its fullest?
1) higher dreams for children
2) higher regard for their children in knowing how much they can take
Obedience is considered among the highest virtues.
"prosperity can never last for three generations. " ... Not on my watch.
Not going to raise a soft, entitled child. Classical music. Achievement.
I like clear goals and clear ways of measuring success.
With me at her side, she practiced piano at least 90 min every day, including weekends. On lesson days we practiced twice as long. I never paid her a penny.
Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.
Nothing is fun until you're good at it.
I did well at law school by working psychotically hard.
"Everything valuable and worthwhile is difficult!"
I won't let her indulge her own inner doubts.
Chinese children practice ten hrs day
We Read to them for one hour ever night
Demand perfect grades bc they believe their child can get them. If not, the child did not work hard enough. Will then do 100s of practice tests with the child.
One of the worst things you can do for a child's self esteem is to let them give up.
Confidence comes from learning you can do something you thought you couldn't
Find a happy medium between:
Western: respect, individuality, pursue passions, support choice, positive reinforcement, nurturing environment. Spontaneity, freedom, discovery, experience.
Chinese: prepare children for future, and see what they're capable of, arming them with skills, work habits, & inner confidence that no one can ever take away.
Every day that you don't practice is a day that you're getting worse.
Childhood: something fleeting and to be enjoyed vs. training period, a time to build character and invest in the future.
Limits create happiness, not unchecked freedom.
World travel as a family
She was challenged on a new level. Stimulated and intrigued.
Easing up would've been selling her short
You have to be strong and find a way to get through this
Gave them a sense of their own abilities and of the value of excellence.
Lesson: she has a diff personality and you can't force her. She's a sweet girl, don't be so hard on her.
It goes so fast. Before you know it your children are grown and gone.
All the hours of labor, fighting, aggravation, and misery. For what? If the child hates it, why force it?
Focus on What's really important
You have to work to be great
I focused my eyes on lulu, taking her in. She's indomitable and wherever she ends up, she is going to be amazing
Choice. Is what it all comes down to. Westerners believe in choice. Chinese do not.
I'm a huge believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
Life is so short and so fragile, and we should be trying to get the most out of every breath, every fleeting moment. But what does it mean to live life to its fullest?
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