Overbearing

Responses to Attention: Overbearing Asian Parents && Attention: Overbearing Asian Parents.

A few key tidbits.

Traditional Asian Parenting Style:
Traditional Asian parenting style dictates that children should be blindly obedient and unflinchingly respectful to their parents. For these parents, any amount of expressed dissent is tantamount to intolerable disrespect. It seems to me that depriving kids of the opportunity to express their feelings in a comfortable environment is a great detriment to their chances of thriving as adults in a competitive world where they need to speak up at times without fear of reprisal.
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Overwhelming parental pressure to excel academically, combined with a culture that discourages open communication about one's feelings, leads to kids bottling up their pent-up frustrations and resenting their parents.
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great. I am not going to get into the details of my day in regards to the article. It was not fun and I am now worn out with not as much productivity to show for it as I'd have liked.

It's not always bad, but there are times when I just can't take it anymore. Sigh.

Essentially the day went like this:
~Work was gross (cleaned out the trailer at the ERC which had like dead things in it and mouse poop)...and we inhaled a lot of cleaner as a result. But, then work got better because it was relatively social!
~Sara came with me to Wal-Mart which was somewhat entertaining.
~Then I picked up Allie H. and Laura met us up at the Princess to watch The Time Traveller's Wife (which wasn't particularly good...more confusing than anything else).
~It got a little tense at times in regards to the people dynamics but it is not appropriate to go into it here.
~I am tired and sad that I just don't have the time this week. People probably think I'm deliberately avoiding them but I honestly do not have the time this week and I'm overwhelmed enough as it is with other things preoccupying my mind.

I repeat: I have no interest in going to a Reds game in the near future. I haven't the last couple of times this summer and my decision has not changed nor do I even have the time. As it is I'm already getting nagged about how I'm not being more useful at home as if I just sit around and do nothing because I'm just THAT "lazy." OMG.

Feier is tired of being stressed and pulled around. I need to get stuff done, fine. Now, I'd like room to breathe.

For now though...I've decided I'll take it easy because I can no longer concentrate. I'll get stuff done soon though...I sure hope so...because there is less and less time the more things keep on getting in the way and causing more stress and wasting more time.

Goodnight :)

P.S.
I am very excited about my new flat iron and redken spray stuff. It's pretty quick "casual" curls, not crunchy at all, and a lot of fun :). Looking forward to more hair-fun this school year...I mean, I should with all the random hairstyling equipment I have at this point...geeeez. Playing with my hair is one way I calm myself when I am really stressed out...that and cleaning or being productive (but that is not always a sure pick-me-up).