Don’t Expect Me to Coddle Your Child: Dealing with Permissive Parents

How the Korean concept of “nunchi” can help

One of the surprising benefits of having immigrant parents is that I became very good at observing my surroundings and mimicking people’s behaviours to learn the rules of American society. I had to — my parents never taught me directly what American customs and expectations were as they were learning themselves. They immigrated to the US only a few year…