Shifting your relationship to mentor and friend with your adult child and bonding with your grandchildren requires time and energy — both of which might be limited in your life. But spending that time and energy, and sacrificing to stay connected, will reap great rewards.

You will become the Keeper of Family, the person who connects your own parents and grandparents with younger generations. Family is all about love, devotion, and time to forge the ties that bind you together as the years pass.