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Questions to ask · Life lessons · for your Parents or Grandparents

How do you get through the hard days?

Why this question matters

Advice lands differently in someone's own words and handwriting. Asking for it is also a quiet way of saying their experience matters to you.

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

  1. What is worth worrying about, and what isn't?
  2. What are you most grateful for?
  3. Is there anything you regret, or would do differently?
  4. What has made your life a happy one?
  5. What does it mean to be a good person?

From the journal

Keep their answers in one book.

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

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