亚裔二代这样看父母，同学们你也是这样的妈吗？

Complete List: Things Asian Parents Do

Jump to A, B, C, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, U, W

A

• Amassing large quantities of grocery and shopping bags
• Asking for multiple free totebags/drawstring backpacks at every event
• Asking your kid multiple times how to upload photos on email or Facebook
• Asking your kid to configure all home electronics
• Asking your kids for help and calling them “useless” after they volunteer
• Asking your kids to explain what’s happening in an English movie every 5 minutes

B

• Believing your kid will be raped/murdered/kidnapped if she sleepovers a friend’s house
• Bragging about your kid’s ivy league college to family/friends
• Buying a digital SLR camera and not knowing how to use it
• Buying a new cell phone and not knowing how to use it
• Buying a ton of lottery tickets

C

• Calling your kids fat
• Collecting assorted utensils and napkins from fast food places
• Collecting ceramic figurines and displaying them in a glass cabinet
• Collecting condiment packets and assigning a kitchen drawer for them
• Comparing you to other people’s kids
• Criticizing & publicly scolding your kid as a favorite pastime

G

• Get you to start your own business

H

• Having a large collection of slippers available
• Hoarding hotel toiletries

I

• Imposing curfew at sun down (no matter what age)
• Insisting your kid not to buy you Mother’s or Father’s day gifts

J

• Judging your kid’s friends..

L

• Leaving original plastic wrapping on furniture

M

• Making your kids order for you at non-Asian restaurants

N

• Never explaining “the Birds & the Bees” to your kids
• Never saying “I love you” to your kids
• Never turning down free food samples at Costco
• Not knowing how much to tip on a restaurant bill
• Not knowing how to hang up/end call on their smart phone

P

• Providing two months worth of cooked food when visiting your kid at college
• Purposely starving oneself before a buffet dinner

R

• Re-gifting gift baskets given by their non-Asian friends
• Reminding your kid that a nursing home is not an option

S

• Setting up your kid on a date– solely based on the person’s resume
• Storing extra pots and pans in your oven
• Swiping free water bottles, pens and/or keychains at any event or conference

T

• Taking multiple blurry photos of the same stationary thing
• Thinking that seatbelts are unnecessary when sitting in the backseat of the car
• Threatening to ship your kid back to the motherland
• Threatening your kids that they will work at McDonalds

U

• Using a dishwasher as a drying rack

W

• Watching “Dancing with the Stars” or any other singing-based competiton