I thought I would be remiss if I didn’t discuss this topic (and my husband suggested it ), but I think there is an interesting dynamic that may be occurring for immigrant families during the US economic crisis.

I was catching up with a friend the other day and we got to talking about the dynamics of a relationship between two immigrants with the same cultural background where one was raised in the US and the other in the country of origin (like my husband and I). My friend was saying how the differences between their life experiences can be great enough to make them incompatible.

The discussion about multilingualism may come and go in the mainstream media, but it is a continuous hot topic among immigrants.

The question of how to discipline our children is one for which I don’t think that there is a right or one size fits all answer. This issue can become more compounded when you are taking into account the way that you were disciplined as a child, as well as your partner. This question is even more complex by having parents from different cultural backgrounds.