<p>My mom is happy if I do my best, but my dad knows everything I am learning in every class. How you ask?
I am in Ap chem (he is a chemist) and he quizzes me sometimes on nomenclature stuff, polyatomic ions etc. So I dont forget.
In AP Calc my dad just knows what I am learning so he helps me a lot in this class.
In english h, we are reading pygmalion and my family is watching my fair lady before we finish the play so I understand it more.
In ap euro, my dad sends me links constantly via email for good tests and practice quizzes online.</p>
<p>I love my parents…they are almost 99% of the reason I am doing well in school.</p>
<p>Disagree. I know people that have awesome grades that have social lives, and I know idiots that don’t have a social life. I don’t actually know anyone that has good grades and no social life.</p>
<p>I think the biggest problem with preamble’s life is that she likes Bob Dylan.</p>
<p>You are confusing two ideas - the idea of not currently having a social life, and the idea of not having social skills. I am not a sociopath or something, I actually have social skills that are quite developed - people regard me as witty, funny, considerate, etc. Just because I don’t have the time to go to the mall for some sale at H&M with my friends doesn’t mean that I am just completely void of the ability to actually make friends. </p>
<p>@ Repede
You may be right about the Bob Dylan thing.</p>
<p>My parents don’t seem to care too much or push me at all. </p>
<p>My dad is nonchalant about our grades; he seems to care more about my athletic stuff/track stuff than school/college stuff. I’m not sure if he understands the cost of college or the application process because, he went to college a long time ago (when college was cheaper) and didn’t have to worry about being accepted anywhere for his undergraduate degree (He was a football recruit/had full scholarship offers). </p>
<p>My mom cares but, she figures I’ll get into anywhere I want too and doesn’t push me. I have better grades than my siblings (and I’m considered to be smarter than them) so, she focuses on them. I’m left to push myself</p>
<p>My parents will let me follow whatever path I decide to take; and they support me no matter what. Though, because I am tall, my dad and a lot of my relatives expect/ want me to play basketball. I don’t know if my ethnic background has anything to do with it but I doubt it.I know I’m tall for my age but I don’t have the passion to ensue in the life of athletics. Science is my passion
I was pushed hard to do well in school. It was because of this is why I do well academically.</p>
<p>I think its not specific to Asians - I think most immigrant/first generation parents are like this, or maybe a good percentage of them. Arabs, Indians, East Asians, Africans, etc.</p>
<p>The top 20 students at my school happen to be first generation-whateverethnicity and their parents are down all of their backs. Its particularly bad for this one girl whose Father is an Italian immigrant, and she was in the hospital for a double ear infection and tonsillitis while AP scores came out, and her Father found out she got a 3 in AP English and flipped out on her while she was partially deaf in a hospital bed…</p>
<p>@chi
We all have our ups and downs. You just have to be magnanimously encouraging, thus promoting a better relationship with those you’ve had a conflict with.</p>
<p>My dad is the one who really looks at my grades. He’s pretty chill though, he’ll usually say something like, “are you aware that your grade in math went down,” and I’ll say yes, and then he’ll say something like, “okay, just try harder next time.” It would probably be different if I wasn’t so competitive though. In fact, sometimes he’ll try to get me to stop freaking out about grades so much. One time my theater teacher accidentally entered a 0 instead of a 100, and I was failing the class. I was sobbing, and my dad actually had to have a talk about taking school so seriously.</p>
<p>I’m to become a doctor, according to my mom. Most of my family is like that, actually, but luckily, I actually enjoy science and really do want to be a physician/researcher.</p>
<p>My parents nag me a fair bit. I usually tell them my marks and stuff about my life, so unless I’m not doing well or behaving really inappropriately, they aren’t on my case that much. I think they’ve instilled a desire to do well. </p>
<p>I think ultimately, they think I could do better than I am now - I waste time and eat unhealthy and I think that worries them because I have high goals and whatnot. And I agree with them, to some extent but I don’t think I can change that easily. For instance, I really last minuted crammed for all my APs and did well. If I had studied maybe a few hours more for each, I’d have even better results. It’s tiresome, but I know they love me a lot.</p>
<p>But at the same time, they’re soo chill on other things. If I want to sub to a magazine, it’s NBD. Skipping school for an educational/interesting event? NBD. </p>
<p>I think my parents want me to get out more, actually. But I’m really busy most of the time and the school I go to is really cliquey sometimes. These two girls were literally b******* out some other girl for only liking Harry Styles from 1D. (I wish I were kidding… ) I’m planning on just sticking HS out and moving on when it comes to university. Uni acceptance here is dependent on mostly grades so most kids don’t really do ECs. The bright side is that the ones that do are pretty legit (or aiming for the US, lol).</p>
<p>It’s not really tiger parenting, I guess. I know a REAL tiger parent. She scheduled her kids’ time for the entire day and had them study extra stuff while in 4th grade! I know most Asian parents do stuff like that - mine got me into reading/some comp/math stuff in a fun way but she was insane. Most 1st gen Asian parents don’t really take the Western educational system seriously, I think. It’s a lot easier than what they had to do (usually) back wherever.</p>
