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Asian parents

As I recently read Tim’s latest post and marveled at my own similar experience, I realized how amazing Asian (and other non-American) parents are. Out of all the things they have to go through, one thing that never struck my mind was the fact that they sometimes or often have to be humbled by their own children’s superior English.

For example, earlier I had to help my mom write a simple note for my sister’s teacher. The whole idea of a parent asking their child for help in a routine message, to me, seems so humbling and almost degrading to the parent. In the American norm, shouldn’t it be the other way around? The incompetent child asking the wise parent for help on their English assignments or something of that nature. But instead, it’s the parents that asks the child. How amazing is it that they are willing to go and “lower” themselves from their high and mighty parental position to seek help from their own offspring. I can’t seem to remember any other situation in nature that this sort of relationship would exist other than when the parent is reaching towards the end of their life and require their children’s assistance to simply do everyday activities. 

Love yet again.