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No room for error. Asian Parents

There is no room for error! Everything has to be perfect. And that is how it is with Asian parents and it sucks.

Growing up with rules when you are one. And being pressured into things that you hate doing! Like piano lessons, when you hate music or art classes when you cant draw even if your life depended on it. Being told that you are stupid and that you will never get into a good school because you failed a pop quiz. It doesn’t feel great having your parents tell you that every time you do something wrong. And you try to ask for help, but they can’t help you, either because they can’t be bothered, or they say that you are stupid and should already know. 

I have grown up in this environment. And even though I love my parents dearly, I find that numerous faults in what they do and what they say. 

They are pushy. Everything that they say, you must do, even if you do not agree. And I am not talking about doing the dishes, I’m talking about things like extra curriculum classes. Like tennis or violin, or swimming. You can’t quit but you can’t be bad at it either. It is a hard life.

 

Homework is an unavoidable part of life. But when teachers are nice and they don’t give you any homework, you chill out in front of the TV or the computer. But with Asian parents, if you have no homework, they give you extra homework. And if you finish that they give you more. That is also like holidays. Well actually, you don’t have holidays. It is always homework, tutor homework and Chinese.

Asian parents restrict their kids from having fun. I know a girl who is in year 5 and doesn’t know what an Ipod is. They are control everything. Who your friends are, what age you date, who you date, and NO SEX! And I am not saying want sex. It is just that every time before you go to parties. They give you this long boring and pointless speech about how IMPORTANT it is not to have sex. And I have probably heard these speeches about 400 times.

Asian parents can be so cheap sometimes. Only buying from discount stores like the reject shop and BIG W. You are not allowed to buy from just jeans, jayjays or diva. They say that you have to get value for money. You can’t buy from designer brand unless they are on sale. And it is really annoying because things from cheap places have no style.

Even thought it is illegal to hit or abuse children in Australia, it still happens. Children are hit for doing the littlest things. But in china, parents always hit their kids. If you weren’t hit, you were considered spoilt.

Also in china there are arranged marriages. My friend, practically my sister, who was born in china, would have been, married at the age of 16 to a man who was 5 years older than her. But her parents moved to Australia and she didn’t have to.

Asian parents also expect their kids to do well in everything. They set your standards at an extremely high standard, you have this bad feeling that you're letting them down. So sometimes you are forced to study hard, staying up till the crack of dawn.

Overall, it is hard living as an Asian. Your parents literally control your life at a young ages. The older you are, the more freedom you will receive but that's a long time to wait so unfortunately, Asian kids have to continue with their parents in complete control of their lives.

- my year 8 speech.