American fashion designer mom who lived in China for 16 years says she MISSES how Communist government 'co-parented' her children - dictating even what they should eat - and wants U.S. to learn from its example

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[algore]

An American fashion designer who spent 16 years in Shanghai has published an essay in the New York Times highlighting the virtues of raising her children under the watchful and authoritarian eye of the Chinese government.

Heather Kaye, 49, arrived in Shanghai in 2006 with her husband George and planned to be there for a year. But the couple stayed and ended up raising their two daughters there. However, in 2022 the family was driven to return to the US after living for two years under the country's draconian COVID-19 policies.

She has now described her return to Washington DC as a 'culture shock' that makes her miss the way her children were 'co-parented by the Chinese government'.

Kaye acknowledged the ways in which the Chinese Communist Party would insert itself into family life, be it by controlling what her kids ate or by dictating the number of hours they should sleep at night.

'In China, government co-parenting begins in the womb,' she wrote, referring to the limits on how many children parents were allowed, which have since been relaxed.

She added that not long after enrolling her kids in state-run schools it started controlling how they should live

'Chinese kindergarten lectured us on everything, including how many hours our daughters should sleep, what they should eat and their optimal weight,' she said.

She recounted: 'Each morning all of the students performed calisthenics in straight rows and raised China's red flag while singing the national anthem.'

And she commended the Chinese system for independently 'instilling a solid work ethic and a total drive for academic excellence,' teaching them that hard work leads to results.

Kaye claimed she was also grateful for the way surrendering parts of their children's lives to the state reduced burdens on her and her husband

[frog in a pot]

My first response was - a hippy-dippy artist who didn't want to grow up and assume parental responsibilities.

But then, I wouldn't want to disparage all the responsible parents who sent their children to Catholic schools, an educational system with an INFINTELY more loving and powerful almoner.

[bobbo666]

So, this worthless TWOT did not connect the CCP’s policies to how it treats WuhanFlu?

Well, that explains how she got something in the NYTimes.

[LibertyOh]

Lived in Switzerland and had a few people from formerCommunist countries in my office. Conversation turned to how nice it must be to now live in freedom. A couple kind of smirked and talked about how some things in their opinion were better, they all had jobs but not a lot was expected and they had a place to live, food, etc…. Some folks just like to be taken care of and not have to make decisions even if they can have a better life.

[Midwesterner53]

Cuba has a net loss of people, she could find a home there quickly.

[Clarancebeaks]

She’s in DC, what the hell does she want. Relocate her and her kids to California. If thats not enough for them, send them all to Canada, although that may be a little extreme.

[Chode]

was driven to return to the US after living for two years under the country’s draconian COVID-19 policies

so it’s pick and choose what you like about the CCP... is that it?

[nathanbedford]

This fashion designer (the occupation is not incidental) deplores the fact that the American government is not coercing conformity as is being done in China.

What does a fashion designer do? The fashion designer presumes to dictate norms of dress while professing to the world that they are iconoclasts. In other words, they decry conformity that is spontaneous among the people only to insist that the people conform to their subjective normative notions. They demand change as they impose conformity.

We see this phenomenon very much alive in the criticism of art, culture, language and especially in movies and television. Typical of Democrats, these cultural critics impose a deadening hand of conformity on what may or may not be depicted on your television screen every night even as they posture with Oscars and Emmys extravaganzas for their cutting edge "progressivism."

At the same time we read of an European apparatchik declaring that America will soon enact hate speech laws in conformity with Europe's. Meld these two mindsets and the precondition for real tyranny as just been established.

[SpaceBar]

If one looks around hard enough, you'll find people with pretty much any opinion
on anything. The pathology here is how Daily Mail thinks this one statistical
anomaly is important enough to scream her demented message from their digital
rooftop.

[No name given]

Better yet, send them to Venezuela

[No name given]

Amen!!

[No name given]

And take your fellow lefties with you!

[butlerweave]

Please go back to China

[dadgum]

Go back to China.
Surrender your freedoms to your CCP god.

Stay away from me and my country.

[Libloather]

'...and their optimal weight,'

Won't work in the land of drive-through ordering. Could almost be a hate crime.

[jmacusa]

Shoot her. Shoot her now. I’ll do it for the good of all of us.