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Questions to ask · Growing up · for your Grandparents

What did your parents worry about most when you were young?

Why this question matters

Asking about being young and free lets them be someone other than the person you have always known. Listen for the plans, the risks and the friends who mattered.

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 was your first job, and how much did it pay?
  2. What did you buy with your first real wages?
  3. What was the bravest or most foolish thing you did as a young man?
  4. What did your clothes and hair look like back then?
  5. Where was the first place you travelled far from home?

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. Every page has room to write the answer by hand.

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