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Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

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Amy Chua
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 26
Economist
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Champaign
Illinois
Amy L. Chua
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As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
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