Bruce Fieler’s New York Times
article about the importance of family narratives is fascinating. Apparently understanding where our families come from and the good and bad times they've had is the “best single predictor of children’s emotional health and happiness.”
Evidently, it’s not just the knowledge, but also the process by which these things came to be known - repeated family conversations at meal times, for example. Apparently that shared knowledge creates an “intergenerational self,” a belief that creates resilience from the knowledge that we are part of something that started long before.
Lovely.
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