Affluent Parenting: Building Confidence and Competence in the Next Generation

Presented by John E. Messervey — Private Advisor to America's Leading Families™

Although raising children has never been easy, families of affluence face unique parenting challenges. Every wealthy family faces the daunting task of accelerating competencies across generations. Nurturing a generation of confident and motivated leaders is the critical task for family wealth continuity. In this session, internationally known family business/wealth consultant John Messervey will share essential parenting lessons shared by hundreds of high performing families seeking personal responsibility, wealth stewardship and family harmony.

Drawing on experience advising high-performing families, this article explores the conversations, behaviors, and leadership practices that foster family harmony, responsible stewardship, and lasting wealth.

• The seven "C's " of confident parenting

• Common goals:  the importance of parenting in alignment

• Your wealth history; sharing the story of your family's "good struggle"

• Avoiding affluenza, entitlement, snowplow parenting and a failure to launch

• Communicating values, enforcing consequences and rewarding performance

• Common phrases that should never be said in HNW parenting

• Why parenting millennials and the "I" generation is vastly different

• New threats, new opportunities for family business heirs in a vastly different world

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"John's approach is unlike anything you have heard before. His message is immediately relatable, enjoyable, at times humorous, other times empathic, always supportive."

"I emphatically recommend this program to others. I should have heard this message long ago."

"A must for anyone who has a family member joining the business."

"You'll laugh, and you may cry, but you will never look at parenting the same way again."