My partner and I are raising our daughter bilingual but we keep disagreeing about which cultural stories and family histories to prioritize, and I'm realizing we both have huge gaps in what we actually remember from our own childhoods that we're trying to pass down. We want her to have strong cultural roots but we're not even sure what's accurate versus what's just family mythology.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that their separate cultural inheritances are more fragmented than they realized, creating uncertainty about what wisdom they can authentically transmit.
“Where Are You with Memory and retention across cultures?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.