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Yeah, I'm same with trout in that I'm the last "line" for the family. My parents (especially my mom) bugs me often about "Go get a GF, go get married, go get Kids", to which I reply "Sure, when I'm working on it. No, marriage is the 2nd last thing I would ever do in life, and HELL NO, I won't have kids. I already know what will happen since I've seen my sister growing up from day 1 when I was 6". Of course, they're used to it and not physco-parents, so they'll just joke around. But, I'm pretty sure almost all Chinese (if not Asian) parents are like that. If you're lucky, you can just ignore-joke around with them.

As for academics/life/career, my parents had high-expectation when I was younger, of course going through a horrible middle school didn't help me at all. I also had to take alot of responsibility more than my peers since my family were 1st gen immigrants and my parents barely spoke broken english. I had to help them with almost every aspect of life. Because of that, they've sort of lowered their expectation and didn't go phsycho over academisc later on. By 9th grade, I also knew I wasn't going well with school, so I turned around in high school and got A's and took APs.

That's wierd how some of your parents abhor to the idea of having their kids working when young. My parents wanted me to work (volunteer or for money) early. They wanted me to feel "What it's like out there", so I'll know what's expected of me. I think it's a great idea of to have kids working a small time to feel for the real-world. Having some income outside of allowance is also a great way to teach money management and REAL rewards of work.
 
Also, kids being the 401k is true in the Chinese culture. It's been that way for probably thousands of years. My parents joke about who will be taking care of them in their retirement (me or my sis). They do have some IRA and 401k, but mostly to save money on taxes. Their amount is piddly squat compared to what they should've had, and wouldn't really last them longer than 5-10 years at most. It's kind of scary... But I can't blame since they spent almost all of their money raising us and providing with not-so-great jobs.
 
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