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8. Appreciate your roots. You (and your own children) can benefit greatly from fully understanding and appreciating where you come from. Learn your heritage and the stories of generations past.

7. Love your children more than yourself. A lesson lost on our independent-focused culture, our grandparents often gave up everything for the sake of their children. Be inspired to love a little harder by their own admission of self sacrifice.

6. Wisdom does come with age. Like wrinkles. And gray hair. It just happens.

5. Patience is a virtue. Whether it’s waiting for their dial-up AOL to tell them they’ve got mail or reading the paper from cover to cover, they’ve got this one down and we know we could learn a thing or two from their example.