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Questions to ask · Growing up · for your Mom

What music, posters and fashion filled your room?

Why this question matters

Asking about being young and free lets your mom 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 were you like as a teenager? Be honest.
  2. Tell me about your first crush.
  3. What rules did your parents have that you broke?
  4. When did you first feel like a grown-up?
  5. What was the most daring thing you did before you turned twenty?

From the journal

Keep Mom’s answers in one book.

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

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