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How families navigate conflicting values around cultural transmission

My grandmother wants to teach my kids the traditional fool stories from our culture, but my spouse thinks they're just silly tales with outdated values, and I'm caught between honoring my heritage and protecting my kids from what my spouse sees as problematic content.

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Three generations are struggling to bridge different understandings of what cultural wisdom means and how it should be passed down.

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