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Questions to ask · Work and purpose · for your Grandparents

Who taught you the most about working hard?

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. Was there a job you wanted but never got to do?
  2. What skill are you proudest of having learned?
  3. Tell me about a mistake at work that taught you something.
  4. What did a good day's work feel like to you?
  5. How did you and the family get by when money was tight?

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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