How To Raise A Child With Your Asian Wife

By Mi Hung


The day of the wedding with your Asian wife was beautiful. The honey moon is even better. You are going to the right direction of your marriage. After couple of months, your Asian girl's parent started to ask when you are going to have a baby. So you start to have that discussion with your new Asian wife.

So you want to know what kind of things you should pay attention to for raising babies with your wife. Not surprisingly, if you ask your wife opinion about it, she will basically just follow her mother's advice. In fact, it's not only about parenting, but there are more things to consider. Let me show your some key points here.

Asian wife will usually go along with her parent's wish. As you may have heard about it, most Asian wives are more likely to just follow her parent's advice. It's not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion. I understand it's not very common in the western culture. But remember, you are married to an Asian family. You need to know how to get used to their culture.

Your children are good looking? If you are in Asia right now, maybe you have heard about things from your friends or your wife's relatives say: your children must be good looking! Ha, that's not a bad thing to get started right?

Talk to your wife about the language learning. Your children are likely to have a natural advantage of the language. Say, if your wife is Chinese and you are from UK, then your children can learn Chinese and English at the very early stage. It's a good idea to get your child to be bi-lingual. It's good for your children's future.

Remember you and your Asian wife are from different culture background. Besides you and your Asian bride speak different language, you need to know at the beginning you and your wife are born and raised in the totally different cultural environment. Since your child was born, it becomes harder to manage the relationship. Let me tell you why, you will experience lots of questions like education (should your children go to international school or local school? Or should your children follow the mother's or yours?)

Education is also very important. In most cases, your wife will like her kid to be educated in the western environment. No matter your decision is to stay in the East or go back to your own county, talk to you wife and make sure she understands you.

When it comes to discipline, make sure you know this. It says Asian girl do not know how to discipline the kid. Well, it's not that true. But you do want to make sure you guys are on the same page for different parenting issue. If you have an argument in front of the kid, it's a really bad influence.




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