Healthy parents remain flexible in their ideas, are open to change, and have an unbigoted view of others. Acceptance of uncertainty. Mature parents realize that they live in an uncertain world. Although they might enjoy a good degree of order, they do not whiningly demand this order and are not willing to settle for a false sense of certainty. Healthy parents have the capacity to become vitally absorbed in something outside of themselves.
Mature parents can feel deeply and act concertedly.
However, they can also regulate their emotions and actions by reflecting on them and their consequences. Healthy parents accept themselves because they are alive and they avoid measuring their basic worth by their external achievements or the evaluations of others. Emotionally healthy parents tend to be adventurous, though not foolhardy. Mature and emotionally healthy parents accept the fact that they will never achieve a utopian existence. They realize that they will never get everything they want, nor will they completely avoid everything they do not want.