Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Ideas for helping elders feel useful

Some of this is obvious, but I still found some useful insights for myself, and the insights really are applicable to women, too.  I think I will try more to ask my mom for advice, I do think she would really like that.  Maybe I will try it with Marilyn too, at times.  

Source: Global English Editing Psychologists say the reason so many boomers struggle to ask their adult children for help isn't pride — it's that their entire identity was built on being the person others turned to, and needing help feels like losing the only self they know https://share.google/8a6VJAAIygexyCwkz

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