American Quote by Amy Chua

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

— Amy Chua

Sometimes, it's hard for parents to talk to their children. It's all about learning that there are other ways to communicate, like through crafts,…

— Tabitha Brown

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

— Amy Chua

Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a…

— F. Paul Wilson

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have…

— Maya Lin

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

— Robert Winston

Parents typically don't talk to each other about their goals and attitudes to parenting but this type of conversation could be very useful for…

— Timothy Carey

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

— Wendi Deng Murdoch

The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what…

— Caleb Deschanel

“Whenever kids asked me, “Are you Chinese?”—which was often—I would invariably respond yes. My mother heard me doing this once and gave me hell…

— Euny Hong

Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like…

— Elif Batuman

There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their…

— Amy Chua