Marking milestones meaningfully builds personal identity and deepens family connections. Too often, milestones become check marks on a lifetime to-do list. Celebrations start to feel empty and hollow. Transitional moments get lost in the hectic nature of managing everyday life. Times of grief and commemoration come and go.

How can families mark birthdays, anniversaries, achievements and transitional moments in authentic ways that resonate? Acknowledging important life events is becoming increasingly hard in a world saturated with things to buy to mark an important occasion. What do we want our children to remember from these milestone moments?

Being part of a community and feeling connected to older generations is an important part of building a solid sense of self. Knowing your family history and being part of a larger multi-generational community helps kids to feel grounded in who they are and where they come from. It helps children feel connected to something that is larger than their family unit. But how do we engage with grandparents and extended family in ways that are meaningful for each generation? How do we keep and deepen connections between generations as our kids grow up?

Pixie@Milestones will work with you to create a personalized Family Milestone Map to mark life’s moments meaningfully and a Family Ritual Plan to keep your family unit connected across generations.

Pixie@Milestones offers:

• In-depth interviews (in person or online) with key family members to understand your family history, upcoming milestones and transitions.

• Personalized Family Ritual Plan to establish best practices for your family to connect weekly, monthly and annually.

• Customized Family Milestone Map for marking milestones and transitions using best practices from history, psychology, social work and cultural memory studies.

• Frameworks, tools and templates to facilitate intergenerational communication.

• Sessions can be incorporated into the monthly Pixie@Home meetings or individual Pixie@Milestones sessions are available to prepare for a specific milestone.