My husband and I keep fighting about how hard to push our kids — he says I'm becoming my mother with all the pressure about grades and activities, but he doesn't understand that without structure they'll never reach their potential. We're pulling them in opposite directions and I can see it's confusing our daughter.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two parents are caught between cultural inheritance and conscious choice, unable to find shared ground on how much to demand from their children.
“Where Are You with Tiger parenting — East Asian model examined?”
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