5 Secrets Happy Retirees Keep From Their Children

When it comes to ambition, pacing and purpose, every generation has its own healthy operating beliefs. There’s overlap but overall, the development of wisdom is cumulative and comes about from the processing of life experience, something that happily retired baby boomers who are happy in retirement have in abundance. Nevertheless, for baby boomers, the temptation is to share what we’ve learned with our offspring. But the wisest amongst us keep at least some of our discoveries about life in retirement largely to ourselves. In doing so, our adult children switch lanes prematurely and skip important steps needed for their development. For this reason, happy retirees have learned to keep secrets and now one life stage expert is willing to share.

Boomer author Carol Orsborn, Ph.D., a leader in the conscious aging movement and author of 36 books for and about life stage development, has studied men and women in their post-career years and come to some paradigm-shifting conclusions. In search of her wisdom, I interviewed Orsborn about her new book, Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life. Following are her 5 Secrets happy retirees keep from their children: