Families flourish when they help each generation parents children…
Families flourish when they help each generation parents children and grandchildren live their lives on their own and together as flourishing individuals. Giving is at the core of flourishing. Anything that is so important to family as flourishing is also central to parenting.
— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)
In the book
It is the place you first learn that the word "I" can grow to mean "us." So the promise is this: I want to give you what I have learned about flourishing inside a family — and a family flourishes, the researchers say, exactly when each generation helps the others flourish, parents helping children and children helping parents, all of them becoming more fully themselves together. Real flourishing, they say, has three ingredients: a sense of lineage — knowing and celebrating where you came from; the joy of honest, warm connection in the present; and a shared focus on future growth. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)