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Questions to ask · Family · for your Mom

How did you find out you were going to be a mother? How did you feel?

Why this question matters

Becoming a parent or a grandparent changes everything, and it is rare to hear what it actually felt like. This question lets your mom tell it from the inside.

Ask it on a quiet afternoon, give time for the answer, and write down the small details. That is where the story lives.

  1. How did you choose my name?
  2. What was I like as a baby?
  3. What is the funniest thing I ever said or did as a kid?
  4. What did we love doing together when I was little?
  5. What was the hardest part of raising me?

From the journal

Keep Mom’s answers in one book.

This is one of the 100 guided questions in Tell Me Your Story, Mom. Every page has room to write the answer by hand.

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