Different Parenting Methods
When I was in Langkawi, I bumped into a foreigner couple who had their holiday with a little girl. She’s about my boy’s age and she’s an active little girl. I found that her mother has the typical ang moh ways of handling kids. She wouldn’t ask her girl to stop biting her shoes or crawling under the dining table. For most Asian parents, we will drag our kids out from that table already!
No wonder I can’t enjoy a nice meal when I’m dining with my kids. I am too tensed and paying too much attention on them. Maybe I should just let go and adopt the ang moh parenting style. But my kids will definitely look weird in the eyes of Asians.
