As I look upon the words and feel the beating of the heart "boom - boom" I am struck with fear! For I know that sound, I know that telltale call, but for me， it's the call of a tiger mom shouting "what is your score? what is your score?" or the deepy fearful sounds of "why did you not do your chores? chores? chores!". Or the dreaded early morning call on the edge of slumber "Sophia? Sophia! SOPHIA!". My classmates just can not understand what it's like listening to the telltale call of expectations beyond mortal reason. I am cursed to bear the history of my forefathers, and worse, my foremothers, an unbroken line of hard labor and straight A's. My telltale is a call of woe "where are your grades, where are my A's, there are winners and there are B students, which are you? which are you!" My only escape is jumping through a pinhole, this pinhole is acceptance to Harvard, Yale, or in the worse case Rice university, but deep down I know the telltale call of "Scores, Chores, A's" will follow me until I unburden myself onto my daughter with the history of their foremothers.
有被歪曲了好几层。
女儿最近很喜欢老师的课堂讨论关于Allen Poe的 The Tell Tale Heart。说是大师所有故事集里写的最好的一篇。
然后她的老师就布置写一篇类似 Tell Tale的诗歌。
女儿怎么动笔都写不出来那个韵味。然后LD就拿我作为题材，看得我火冒三丈，女儿要是照抄，那我在她老师心中的形象岂不是又继续直落三丈？
The Tell Tale Tiger Mom
As I look upon the words and feel the beating of the heart "boom - boom" I am struck with fear! For I know that sound, I know that telltale call, but for me， it's the call of a tiger mom shouting "what is your score? what is your score?" or the deepy fearful sounds of "why did you not do your chores? chores? chores!". Or the dreaded early morning call on the edge of slumber "Sophia? Sophia! SOPHIA!". My classmates just can not understand what it's like listening to the telltale call of expectations beyond mortal reason. I am cursed to bear the history of my forefathers, and worse, my foremothers, an unbroken line of hard labor and straight A's. My telltale is a call of woe "where are your grades, where are my A's, there are winners and there are B students, which are you? which are you!" My only escape is jumping through a pinhole, this pinhole is acceptance to Harvard, Yale, or in the worse case Rice university, but deep down I know the telltale call of "Scores, Chores, A's" will follow me until I unburden myself onto my daughter with the history of their foremothers.内外有别，偶尔善意嘲笑妈妈，只可以发生在家里
LD他哥哥是比他还要厉害的放羊派。现在他儿子也是成天折磨父母。
日本妈妈可虎了。
可是我想让弟弟慢慢把数学里有关章节都慢慢学了。
我的plan跟他完全不是一回事。
LD就希望儿子以后学工科，我还认为弟弟要是对数学感兴趣，以后做点数学研究也不错啊。我就是不想这么快上微积分的内容。
美国名校毕业，她嫁给一个中国人，中文比我还溜。然后鸡娃儿也是有条有理，我们都是粗养，人家那个是精养。
STEM 竞赛。小印不错。
虎多了。
因为我女儿学习方面基本考不倒，加上是过目不忘的影相记忆力，所以文理都不用管，是EC方面我和她爸吵得天翻地覆。
这个世界如果不是孩子，真能安静许多
我女儿不是写的，是跟我们像脱口秀一样说的，自己编的。把我们两口子笑晕了。只记得一小部份：
我是一个perfect kid，我拉小提琴，每门课都是100分，每天吃很多青菜。。。。。。（实际情况根本不符啊）
我妈妈告诉我，我舅舅小时候每天上学要翻过一座山，山上还有老虎。有一天舅舅在上学的路上，一只胳膊被老虎咬掉了！但是！！！舅舅坚持去上学！！！路过医院都没停！！！他终于当上了医生。。。。。。
昨天妈妈帮做艺术课作业，今天爸爸帮做ELA作业。为了孩子的成绩，父母都可以上阵帮忙孩子写作业做project? 孩子学习的过程远比结果重要啊。不过目测今天的楼主应该不会让孩子抄爸爸写的作业
又读了一遍，发现这是神来一笔啊～～
我念书时候也烦我妈妈唠叨，还有分分分，学生的命根。
结果等我做妈妈，比我妈有过之而无不及啊。
原则地开杠，还自称不虚伪，呵呵
要是心存感激，那继续唠叨你的女儿也无可厚非啊。
我跟LD都是被放养长大的自推娃，所以对自己的孩子也是倾向于放养。看到紫檀里你这样能干英勇的虎妈，很是佩服
这个世界本来就是有爹妈可拼的娃可以拿到更多的资源。
看看耶鲁黄的妈
看了你和儿子一起做数学题，你家LD帮女儿写诗，想起我的前邻居。
女主经济博士，做高层的战略部署工作。男主EE博士or 硕士，做具体的实施性工作，最多是项目lead.
女主负责计划和安排任务，厨房墙上挂个白板，列出一周的task，每天的任务量。女主买课外数学资料等都是两份，儿子做一套，男主做一套。男主负责实施女主的计划。女主把娃的学习当作一个项目来管理，及管理了娃，又管理了男主。LOL
女主是从小移民加拿大的香港人，事业心超级强。男主是香港长大的香港人，米国读研，男主EQ极高，外形不比港星差。
后来只知道他家大儿子旗舰州大 CS，估计小儿子也差不多。当时男主说，旗舰州大 CS性价比最好。港人很务实。