My husband and I are first-generation immigrants and we keep fighting about whether we're being too hard on our kids — I see the academic pressure that got us here as necessary survival but he says we're recreating trauma and our teenage daughter has stopped talking to us about anything that matters.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two parents are caught between their survival strategies and their children's wellbeing, with no shared language for what love looks like across generations.
“Where Are You with Tiger parenting — East Asian model examined?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.