Mom takes on the business stuff: invention, human resources, problem solving and finances.

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Provide as many details as you want but keep any seamy or gross stuff to yourself (remember, my mom could be reading).

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Mr. FERRER: (Through translator) My mother was very pregnant and, in the jumping and dancing and all this great stuff happening at the party, suddenly my mom starts to feel the contractions.

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"It's the stuff I have to drink at Passover dinner at my mom's house, " said my friend Richard.

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It's a lamentation song of coogle days gone by, where your grandma's coogle is so much better than you mom's coogle because your grandma cooked with the high fat stuff.

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According to Chua, who expounded on her ideas in a popular book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the typical Asian mom prioritizes academics and musical accomplishment (in classical piano and violin only) over typical fun kid stuff like sleepovers and playdates.

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