How do you help strengthen the bonds between Chinese-, Korean- and Vietnamese-American daughters and their immigrant mothers?
The cultural and intergenerational differences can be enormous. — Karl Chwe, Denver The common experience of feeling alienated from one’s daughter compounds the grief of leaving one’s homeland, and feeling alienated from one’s mother makes facing teen challenges that much harder. Creating experiences and sharing stories in an intergenerational group offers a way to strengthen bonds among daughters and immigrant mothers. Daughters want their mothers to get what it means to be first-generation Americans, while mothers want their daughters to respect them and their home culture. In a group, mothers and daughters have the support of peers who “get it,” which makes it easier to stretch across the enormous differences in their lives toward bicultural fluency and connection. One way to do this might be a Mother-Daughter Club, in which daughters share something they love about American culture with their mothers, like taking them to an amusement park, alternating with mothers sharing something
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