Philosophical standpoint: Asians are yellow-blooded. The apex of Asian parenthood is to psychologically enslave children to an extreme standard of academia and practice of what Americans tend to consider "hobbies"; the very word stems from our ancestral British heritage and an overweight-canine syndrome. Until the mid twentieth-century, Asians were, simply put, poor. What happened? Is it an aggregate of Asian heritage steeped in a psychopathic history of enslavement to suicidality, a "do-and-die" approach, and the fact that those who fled west to escape communism tended to be driven to both make something of themselves and their own children capitalistically? In any case, I have the utmost respect for the glaring superiority presented by a statistical analysis of Asian-American culture.
What is likely natural and thoughtless in me given my upbringing: overbearing, passionate fatherhood. Red-blooded Americanism.
From my friendships with musicians at PSU (fail), I gathered that a decent Asian parenting style rides the line between the parenting styles of musical/sports/academic BPD-making (strict dispassion) and an ethic that predicts burnout. But what is burnout? Does it exist? It seems you do not hear of those Asians.
There is a functional element of luck involved in any hyper-successful person's life. This leads me to explore a certain element of TDS wherein the safety net presented by well-off parents does not lend itself to a "do-or-die" approach. The latter assumption is bullshit.
Predicting burnout: whereas red-blooded Americans feel that a little chaotic trauma is a good patina, a key indicator of a functional two-parent Asian household producing greatness is a Japanese serenity, per say.
As an aside, the passable disposition of red-blooded offspring is to be kind and gentile towards those who serve them: servers, housekeepers, tutors and the like; it is an Asian humility that I believe can exist with a little dash of Buddhist philosophy. . .
Drawbacks of Asian parenting: expectations are assumed in absolutes. If you fail at six-years-old, you are a failure. See: Teenage Dropout Syndrome.
Drawbacks of Red-Blooded parenting: "Bootstrap" philosophy, giving kids the boot at eighteen (forcing independence). . .
THE QUESTION: do we throw our boots beside their heads or smack them directly? I will do the former. At twenty-seven, if they have their own health insurance, I will hand them a white lighter and thus imply that they are now and forever allowed to blow their own brains out.
