A Family Affair. My sister told me to stop saying "like" and start saying "want" and demanded I make this my new year's resolution for myself in the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit. Not very meaningful when you read this at face value because everyone will tell you that one must be decisive, one must speak up, one must be direct and when one asks, yee shall receive. It is not an act of selfishness but an act of a superior mind by a person who knows what he/she wants and demands to be treated in a certain way. Let us explore how like and want behave in my family through a looking-glass. This week was the CNY 2011 holidays and the revealing results of parenting by which one sibling always says "I want to do this, I want to have that", and the other says "I like to have this, I like to see that" was given its peak. Disregard the personalities, the characters and the social surroundings and purely look at the impact of words. It is very rare that ...