Resources are relatively easy to identify.
A parent can say how much money they have, how much insurance they have, how many relatives are available to help, etc. However, having to identify personal skills and aspects of their lives that they think they do right or are proud of, and tell this information to others is less easy to do. Because spending time thinking of ways to praise ourselves is not something Americans have been socialized to do, the task of identifying own family strengths is often hard for families. Lists of family strengths are available from different researchers. All the lists have several common characteristics.