FAMILY LEGACIES

No matter who we are, where we live or what our goals may be, we all
have one thing in common: a heritage.

Parents always pass to their children a legacy… good, bad or some of

both.
FAMILY LEGACIES
• Social
• Emotional
• Spiritual
Emotional Legacy
A strong emotional legacy:
• Provides a safe environment in which deep emotional groups can
grow.
• Fosters confidence through stability.
• Conveys a tone of trusting support.
• Nurtures a strong sense of positive identity.
• Creates a “resting place” for the soul.
• Demonstrates unconditional love.
Social Legacy
Key building blocks of children’s social
legacy include:
• Respect, beginning with themselves and working out to other people.
• Responsibility fostered by respect or themselves, that is cultivated by
assigning children duties within the family, making them accountable
for their actions, and giving them room to make wrong choices once
in a while.
• Unconditional love and acceptance by their parents, combined with
conditional acceptance when the parents discipline for bad behavior
or actions.
• The setting of social boundaries concerning how to relate to God,
authority, peers, the environment and siblings.
• Rules that are given within a loving relationship.
Spiritual Legacy
• As spiritual beings, we adopt attitudes and beliefs about spiritual
matters from one source or another.

• Parents who successfully pass along a spiritual legacy to their children

model and reinforce the unseen realities of a godly life.
2 Tips: The Legacy You Want to Give
1. Decide what you’ll keep
2. Realize that there is a being who can redeem even the “bad stuff” in
your legacy