I don't like parents who PUSH their kids to do everything. Encouragement and support is good to teach your kids but in 1 case that I know:

There was this girl in High School that was just like the kid in the article. Chinese people are supposed to be a certain way, act, think, weigh, and they have no lives outside of working. Well this girl at my school used to cry and cry bc her mom used to drill her about being a little overweight. She used to call her fat, lazy, pig any name out of the book she could use on her. This poor girl was battered her whole life. She was made to play piano hours upon hours upon hours until an hour before bed, then she had to do her homework. She was miserable and suicidal bc of the pressure her mom put on her. Her mom was chinese and her dad was white. Well all that pressure and name calling made her a little crazy. She was there everyday in school but she wasn't "Alive" ...On top of all that she was visiting her aunt in northern Cali and she got the call that her parents were dead. They told her it was a murder suicide. I think her dad killed her mom then himself. I think all that "pressure was too much" .....

You cannot be a warden to your kids without them feeling put down and unloved. Pushing someone that hard can lead to them killing themselves or other people. It's just not fair. Life is to accomplish things yes, but it is also to enjoy!!!