Opinion | My Asian Pussycat Parents (Published 2016)

The day I received my letter of acceptance to New York University, I was ecstatic. It was my dream university, and my parents were pleased for me. But they also hadn’t pushed me to get into such a competitive school. In fact, the best thing they ever did for me was to discourage my perfectionist tendencies – indeed, when I was in elementary school, my dad offered to buy me a present if I got a C.

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Well, that's probably true, but everything must be balanced and this is really risky in terms of achievement... By the way, "pussycat" means easygoing in this case.