Porch Stories

Questions to ask · Family · for your Parents or Grandparents

What did you do the same as your own mother, and what did you do differently?

Why this question matters

These are the memories you were there for but too young to remember. Hearing them from them fills in the start of your own story.

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 your favourite memory with me so far?
  2. What would you like us to do together that we haven't done yet?
  3. How did you feel when you found out you would be a mother?
  4. What lullabies or stories did you give your children at bedtime?
  5. What was the hardest part of being a mother?

From the journal

Keep their answers in one book.

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

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