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Questions to ask · Work and purpose · for your Parents

What was your very first job? How did you get it?

Why this question matters

Work fills most of a life, yet families often know little beyond a job title. This question opens up the pride, the hard days and the lessons that came with them.

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 do you still want to do or achieve?
  2. What would you tell me about choosing my own path?
  3. Who believed in you when you needed it most?
  4. How have you balanced work, family and yourself?
  5. What do you still want to do or achieve, just for you?

From the journal

Keep their answers in one book.

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

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