Be All That You Can Be

Mama Lai was pretty fascinated with all the hoopla surrounding Amy Chua's article in the Wall Street Journal and her book.  It made her question her own parenting techniques and how it may how adversely affected how I turned out:

"I think maybe if I was harder on you or expected more from you, you could've turned out differently.  You could've achieved so much-- you had so much potential.  Maybe you would have PhD, be a professor, stayed with law.  You could've been...a diplomat's wife."