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[quote=Anonymous]OP I totally get what you mean and don’t think you’re a crazy tiger parent. If other parents were having their kids focus on their interests vs academics, that wouldn’t bother me either (music, sports, art, writing, dance, whatever). But parents who think TV for 5-6 hours on a day off is totally fine and who don’t put their kids in any activities or push them to excel at at least one thing to teach the value of hard work are totally different. It will be hard for your kid not to be influenced by peers and they will push back on you more. Growing up in NYC I saw what my MC/1st gen Asian classmates had to do afterschool/on the weekend and it made my parents seem low key… even though if I described my upbringing, folks here would absolutely describe my parents as Type A/Tiger-lites at least. My parents benefited from the relative comparison because I didn’t push back or rebel because their demands seemed so reasonable and I had so much freedom comparatively speaking. As I got older and met some really rich UES types through school, I was jealous of how little was expected of them/how much freedom they had… but my habits were sufficiently ingrained by then.[/quote]

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