Celebrating and living alongside your kids?  Great.  Living through them? Not so much.

How do you graciously accept someone you haven't chosen or might not choose for your child's partner?

How do you raise a kind child?  Veteran parents Steve and Betsy Peterson, Mary McLaughlin, Kiran Ansari Rasul, Max Weiss, and Matt Fitzgerald weigh in.

As many of us live far from our parents, how then do we honor them at a distance?  Kiran Ansari Rasul on honoring her mother back in Pakistan offers insight.

Psychologist Cheryl Rampage on the relative golden period between when kids are 30-50-ish and parents are 55-75-ish when the younger generation is settled and older aren't yet old old.

Honoring your parents is one thing while they are alive, but how do we honor their memory and do our best to live up to that?  Kiran Ansari Rasul offers one way.

Mary McLaughlin went home to run her family business once her children were grown.  Then she moved down the street from her adult children.  Listen in on her story and the wisdom of psychologist Cheryl Rampage on the dynamics between parents and their adult children as the world changes.  Our interfaith panel includes Max Weiss, Kiran Ansari Rasul, and Matt Fitzgerald.  

Journalist Jacoba Urist's parents supported her interests in writing from an early age, even when those interests were unconventional.  Here's how she translates that into her own parenting.

Marci Alboher of Encore.org on what longer lifespans mean for how we approach higher education and professional training.

In this episode on the meandering path of careers we look at the ways in which one job and juncture leads us to another and the role that faith traditions play in all of our hunts for vocation.  Arts and culture writer Jacoba Urist profiles the artists Laurie Frick, Greg Dunn, and Nathan Sawaya as models in career paths that make the next chapter richer and more innovative.  Marci Alboher speaks on life-long identities.  Rabbi Max Weiss and Leena Suleiman are the interfaith conversation partners.

Laurie Frick

Greg Dunn

Nathan Sawaya