My Goal As A Parent Is To

I Kind Of - I Like My Life, I Feel I Have Lots Of Opportunities. And My Parents Actually Having Had Such High Expectations For Me - I Would Say It's The Greatest Gift That Anyone Has Ever Given Me. I Complained A Lot When I Was Little, But That's How I Feel Now. And That's Why I Tried To Do The Same With My Two Daughters.

For My Senior Prom, My Father Finally Said I Could Go - As Long As I Was Home By 9pm! That Was Around The Time That Most People Were Heading Out. When I Was Little I Was So Mad At Them All The Time. Why Can't I Do This? Why Are There So Many Rules? But Looking Back Now, My Parents Gave Me The Foundation To Have So Many Choices In Life.

I Once Won A Second Prize In A History Concert. My Parents Came To The Ceremony. Somebody Else Had Won The Prize For Best All-around Student. Afterwards My Father Said To Me, 'never, Ever Disgrace Me Like That Again.' When I Tell My Western Friends, They Are Aghast. But I Adore My Father. It Didn't Knock My Self-esteem At All.

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.

The Romans Thought Of Themselves As The Chosen People, Yet They Built The Greatest Army On Earth By Recruiting Warriors From Any Background.