Elders were considered the wisest members of the family. Those who had been in the U.S. the longest served as "trusted advisors." Despite the fact that trusted advisors had a certain amount of misinformation, the family would yield to their recommendations. As an example, a mother did not understand something that was happening to her child in school. She believed the teacher was doing something wrong. At the urging of the extended family's trusted advisors, she pulled her child out of school to teach a lesson to the teacher.