How you think about getting older tracks with how you actually age, according to two studies: 660 older adults whose views on aging were recorded up to 23 years earlier lived 7.5 years longer if those views were positive, even after adjusting for health and income, and a separate four-year study of 4,765 people found a 2.6 percent dementia rate among those with positive age beliefs against 4.6 percent among those with negative ones ByDanielle Sachs July 31, 2026July 30, 2026
If you were raised with old-school values in the 60s & 70s, you probably still do these 11 things without even thinking about them ByHarleen Kaur July 30, 2026July 29, 2026
9 things people raised in the 60s and 70s are openly proud of that younger generations would be embarrassed to admit ByHarleen Kaur July 30, 2026July 31, 2026
9 ways people raised in the 60s and 70s built friendships that lasted 50 years while younger generations can’t keep a group chat alive ByHarleen Kaur July 29, 2026July 29, 2026
A study that followed workers from six months before retirement to a full year after found the people who adjusted best had been quietly preparing three things that had nothing to do with money ByHarleen Kaur July 29, 2026July 29, 2026
People who grew up eating dinner at the table every night at 6 o’clock sharp carry 6 advantages into old age, according to researchers ByHarleen Kaur July 28, 2026July 28, 2026
Psychology says older adults don’t experience their deepest loneliness when they’re alone, but in the hour after a phone call ends, when the contrast between connection and silence becomes the loudest thing in the house ByBolde Team July 28, 2026July 28, 2026
Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X and Boomers have very different ideas of what you owe your aging parents ByHarleen Kaur July 27, 2026July 27, 2026
You can usually tell someone is an eldest daughter by 9 phrases she says on repeat ByHalle Kaye July 27, 2026July 26, 2026
10 prices people over 70 still have memorized — a gallon of gas, a cup of coffee, a starter home — and what the sticker shock is really measuring ByHarleen Kaur July 26, 2026July 24, 2026
If compliments make you physically uncomfortable, you probably heard these 7 sentences on repeat growing up — and your deflection is still answering them ByHalle Kaye July 26, 2026July 26, 2026
People who grew up before smartphones usually remember these 8 tiny freedoms, and researchers say they shaped something much bigger than nostalgia ByHarleen Kaur July 26, 2026July 26, 2026
Opinion | Boomers had a village to help raise their kids— stay-at-home mothers, aunts next door, grandmothers down the block — and refusing to be anyone’s village now that the old system is gone is just selfishly pulling up the ladder behind you ByJason Mustian July 26, 2026July 24, 2026
7 things Gen Z refuses to tolerate that every older generation secretly wishes they’d refused too ByHarleen Kaur July 26, 2026July 24, 2026
Opinion | Moving back in with your parents isn’t a failure to launch — it’s what every generation before 1950 simply called family, and the shame attached to it is younger than the people feeling it ByHarleen Kaur July 26, 2026July 25, 2026
10 lessons people raised by Depression-era parents learned early in life that younger generations now pay therapists and life coaches to learn ByHarleen Kaur July 25, 2026July 24, 2026
10 things kids raised in the 80s and 90s survived on a weekly basis that would trigger a parent-teacher conference today ByHarleen Kaur July 25, 2026July 25, 2026
People who were never allowed to be angry as kids do 8 things with their anger as adults — and none of them look like anger ByHarleen Kaur July 24, 2026July 23, 2026
The art of growing old without growing bitter: 8 habits of people who soften instead of harden ByHarleen Kaur July 24, 2026July 23, 2026
Psychology says people who eat dinner at 4:30 and don’t care who knows it aren’t getting old before their time — they may have simply stopped scheduling their life around other people’s approval ByHarleen Kaur July 24, 2026
Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X and Boomers have very different ideas of when it’s okay to cut off family ByBolde Team July 24, 2026July 23, 2026
Grandparents who stay close with their teenage grandkids do 5 things most grandparents simply won’t ByHalle Kaye July 23, 2026July 23, 2026
3 things Gen Z actually got right about work that older generations are slowly, grudgingly admitting ByDanielle Sachs July 23, 2026July 23, 2026
Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X and Boomers have completely different ideas of what makes someone a good parent ByHarleen Kaur July 23, 2026July 23, 2026
9 realizations that only arrive after your parents are gone (and what people wish they’d done while realizations could still become conversations) ByHalle Kaye July 23, 2026July 22, 2026
Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X & Boomers have wildly different ideas of what a healthy work-life balance looks like ByJason Mustian July 23, 2026
A study of more than 19,000 people found that at every age from 18 to 68, people believed they had finally finished becoming themselves — and at every age, they were wrong ByDanielle Sachs July 23, 2026July 22, 2026
8 questions to ask your aging parents while the asking is still easy — the ones people in their 60s most wish they’d asked in their 40s ByHalle Kaye July 22, 2026July 22, 2026
Opinion | Grandparents are allowed to say no to daycare duty — loving the grandkids and declining to become unpaid childcare infrastructure are not in conflict, no matter how the ask is framed ByHarleen Kaur July 22, 2026July 22, 2026
10 sentences fathers said, maybe only once or twice, that their daughters are still carrying at 40, 50, and even 70 ByHarleen Kaur July 22, 2026July 22, 2026
4 things boomers got right about money that younger generations are now learning the expensive way ByDanielle Sachs July 22, 2026July 22, 2026
Psychology of a recent retiree: 8 things happening under the surface in the first year that nobody warns you about — and why the ones who struggle most were often the best at their jobs ByHarleen Kaur July 22, 2026July 22, 2026
11 social graces people raised in the 60s and 70s still practice that quietly embarrass everyone else in the room ByDanielle Sachs July 22, 2026July 22, 2026
Opinion | Parents don’t owe their children an entertained childhood — boredom was the raw material every previous generation built an inner life out of, and scheduling it away isn’t the gift it looks like ByHalle Kaye July 22, 2026July 22, 2026
Opinion | A six-minute phone call about nothing isn’t a failed relationship — a parent and adult child who talk briefly and often are doing something the rare two-hour heart-to-heart can’t ByHarleen Kaur July 21, 2026July 21, 2026
9 ways people raised in the 60s and 70s got through hard times without a single self-help book ByHarleen Kaur July 21, 2026July 21, 2026
11 things people raised in the 60s & 70s do that make younger generations look soft ByHarleen Kaur July 21, 2026July 20, 2026
I’m 61 and I just noticed I’m barely in thirty years of family photos — I was always the one taking them, and I’ve been thinking about what else I quietly archived myself out of ByBolde Team July 20, 2026July 20, 2026
Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X and Boomers have very different ideas of how much parents should sacrifice for their kids ByHarleen Kaur July 20, 2026July 20, 2026
Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X & Boomers have very different ideas of what it means to be lonely ByDanielle Sachs July 19, 2026July 19, 2026
Psychology of aging well: 9 habits for becoming the older person younger people seek out instead of check on ByHarleen Kaur July 19, 2026July 19, 2026
Psychology says Gen X women who seem impossible to rattle weren’t born calm — they were running entire households by age ten, and the composure is just the habit that never wore off ByHarleen Kaur July 19, 2026July 19, 2026
Boomers raised by depression-era parents inherited these 7 habits that suddenly look like genius again ByHarleen Kaur July 19, 2026July 19, 2026
Opinion | Retirees don’t owe anyone a second act — the pressure to reinvent, volunteer, travel, and stay busy is just the work ethic that used up their first sixty-five years, back again wearing a vacation shirt ByHarleen Kaur July 18, 2026July 19, 2026
Grandparents who stay genuinely close to their grandkids usually say 6 phrases the shut-out ones never learned ByDanielle Sachs July 18, 2026July 17, 2026
Psychology says women who stop coloring their gray hair aren’t letting themselves go — they’re often making the first appearance decision in decades that answers to nobody ByDanielle Sachs July 17, 2026July 17, 2026
9 everyday situations where 80s kids instantly outperform anyone raised with a smartphone, according to psychologists ByHarleen Kaur July 16, 2026
Opinion | You don’t owe retirement a bucket list just because other people are uncomfortable just finding a way to enjoy an ordinary Tuesday ByDanielle Sachs July 16, 2026July 16, 2026
