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When children reject inherited spiritual traditions

My teenage son says our family's Hindu practices are embarrassing and he wants to be normal like his friends and I don't know how to bridge two worlds.

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Cultural and religious transmission across generations faces the challenge of maintaining meaning while allowing authentic individual development.

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