Things I don’t think colleges and schools understand (by a high school junior):

my mom argues with tax professionals about taxes, buys health insurance coverage without knowing what the coverage is about (I wasn't home to help), thinks spontaneous generation is how bugs, mold etc. grow, and so on and so on

as you might imagine I help the household a lot. I do it without hesitation and from the outside it looks like we have a great relationship (esp. to other Asians which is arguably the most important when you're in an Asian family)

when she asked me how I was doing and I said I've been having a headache she threw down "this is all because you always go to sleep with your hair wet" (which I do not because that's gross, and how is that science anyway)

I didn't need that

/r/AsianParentStories Thread