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Questions to ask · School days · for your Grandma

What did you dream of becoming when you grew up?

Why this question matters

School stories are safe ground: easy to start, often funny, and full of names and places you have never heard before. They are a gentle way into bigger memories.

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 one thing you learned at school that you still use today?
  2. What songs, films or radio shows did you love as a girl?
  3. What did girls your age wear, and what did you wish you could wear?
  4. What was your school like? How did you get there each morning?
  5. Which subject did you love, and which one did you dread?

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Keep Grandma’s answers in one book.

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

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