High time for Chinese parents to take a break

There is one thing about my mother that drives me crazy. She calls me 10:30 pm every night to make sure I've arrived home safely. If I accidentally miss her call, she will keep calling all my friends and roommates until she "tracks me down".

As a 20-something lady in Beijing, I feel the 10:30 pm curfew embarrassing - especially when I have to ask my friends to be quiet so that I can pick up my mother's phone call, telling her a white lie that I'm already at home.

However, compared with other parents I ran into recently at a matchmaking meeting, my mother is not that overprotective.