“It was astonishing and moving when Heather Wang took me to the top of Harkness Tower and I tried playing the big bell–and looked down onto the whole Yale campus, realizing that I was standing atop the tower of the most elite institution for academics in the world. My world has broadened so much along with the integration of American culture and liberal arts curriculum.”
I go to a boarding school not within my home country, and I notice the anxiety and communication barriers between parents and children as a result of distance, culture difference, societal construction and so on. I asked my friend in my hometown (who goes to a day school) to start a research project with me to analyse this conflict by comparing parents who are with their children with those who are away from their children. We have collected surveys of 1,321 families, and we are in the process of analyzing data. We aim to host online sessions to publish our outcomes in April with possible tips to improve communication.