The Real Inheritance: Passing Down Values, Stories, and History

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Manymid-career professionals are currently living between two generations at once — caring for parents who are aging while raising children who are becoming themselves.

It is the moment when questions about what gets passed down stop being abstract and start being complicated. And almost everything written on the subject is limited to money.

Seven-time New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler has spent the last decade researching what families actually transmit between generations for a forthcoming book about what he calls "intentional inheritance." Ninety percent of the conversation about inheritance concerns the hundred trillion dollars of wealth changing hands in the coming years. Ninety percent of real inheritance concerns values, culture, purpose, history, trauma, and the stories families tell about themselves.

You will leave with one conversation to have, one gift to write down, and one question to ask yourself - all doable this month, the crucial first steps to bringing your intergenerational family closer together.