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Questions to ask · Family · for your Grandparents

What do you remember about the first time you held me?

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 was the hardest part of being a mother?
  2. What did you do the same as your own mother, and what did you do differently?
  3. How did you feel when you heard you were going to be a grandma?
  4. How is being a grandma different from being a mother?
  5. How did you feel when you found out you would be a father?

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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