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I’m so assimilated that I find the crowds of immigrant parents who crammed their elementary-school children into the ultra-expensive “STEM Kids Camp” on campus to be like aliens from another planet.

I mean, why move to America if you won’t let your kid have an American childhood? It’s the kind of childhood that creates the America you so wanted to join.

Economic anxieties should be resolved by adults and not farmed out tio children. The same goes for people who are very eager for their children to learn languages or to master musical instrument. Recognize that it’s your own desire and go for it. Leave the kid alone.

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    ShadowsCollide

    To a lot of immigrants, the typical American childhood looks like a bunch of slacking off and they often have a superiority complex which makes them think letting their kids act like normal American kids is being lazy.

    I’m glad my parents came over as children and our grandparents let them be, there was stuff my grandparents didn’t understand but they let my parents, aunts and uncles alone. My parents came to the US as children and grew up listening to pop and rock music, watching American TV and movies and went to regular public schools so culturally they’re middle aged American boomers. My siblings and I speak English as a first language and listen to rock and watch American TV and movies, otherwise we’d be in a Hispanic cultural ghetto like too many children of Latin American immigrants

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    methylethyl

    First gen is hard. Most of the immigrant families I grew up around had come out of a long-term warzone. The boys did OK, but the girls had a really, really rough time of it. Not because of the pushing for academic achievement (though there was some of that), but because their mothers were conditioned to an environment where you couldn’t let a girl be out of your sight, anywhere, ever, or bad things would happen to her. In America, that feels like growing up in a prison.

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      Clarissa

      An immigrant friend told me the other day that she believes her daughter will write a book about how hard it is to be a woman in today’s world. The daughter is 7. I told her, “hey, you should write that book. Its your dream, not your daughter’s.” The daughter is too busy at the STEM camp anyway.

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