A myriad of parents of Chinese descent, either in China or overseas, tend to impose their own will upon their children.

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Article via web - Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

Here's an article on WSJ: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. My opinion of Yale Law Professor Amy Chua dropped some notches after having skimmed that essay of hers. Perhaps I was being too judgmental.

Article via web - 伟大的孩子

If you can read Chinese, I would highly recommend this article: 伟大的孩子-心理健康与家庭教育-搜狐博客. Sighing... For the rough-and-tumble callousness which has been permeative in the past and current parenting in the homes in China.

What our infant daughter needs

What she demands day in and day out is proximateness to us, intimacy, interaction, and feeding, yes, lots of feeding. Ah, girls always need attentive company, straight from day one. :-)

On the article "亲子教育，从接纳孩子的情绪入手"

Here goes a superb article: 亲子教育，从接纳孩子的情绪入手-心理健康与家庭教育-搜狐博客.

Well, the ideas expressed in the article are subtle and complex. I don't think the author did a suave job expressing the set of and logical relations among the ideas.

My take is, for one thing, as following:

看来，喜、怒、哀、惧，这人类的四种基本情绪中，怒、哀、惧在童年不被父母无条件接纳的话，从此通通会转化成变形的“怒”的情绪能量。但是，如果“怒”的本能在童年被抑制被消灭的话，怒、哀、惧就会转化成“哀”、“惧”中的两种或一种。


Nonetheless, the article is an eminent piece, for my money.

Well, pictures depicting colicky babies

These pictures are just vivid: http://bit.ly/dD5mWH

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Our daughter just had a colic and cry session, I suspect, this evening. And that sent us scrambling. Sigh...