When people reach old age or the '60s they…

When people reach old age or the '60s they move from building and producing towards something called generativity. We look for ways to reconnect with our children and to come to know our grandchildren. We transition from doing our own work towards mentoring others. How can you invest in your recipient's dreams? And how can recipients communicate their dreams effectively.

— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting) · Cycle of the gift by James Hughes

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Parenthood is, by any honest accounting, exhausting and often thankless in the moment — and yet I would not trade it for anything, because only deep meaning could ever make such a bargain worth being grateful for. This is also how a person matures: in our later years we naturally turn from building and producing toward what the psychologists call generativity — reconnecting with our children, coming to know our grandchildren, shifting from doing our own work to mentoring those who come after. So make family the thing that does not bend. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)

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