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Questions to ask · School days · for your Parents

What did you and your friends do after school?

Why this question matters

Everyone remembers a teacher, a friend or a day that went wrong. Asking about school years shows them as a child, long before they were anyone's parent or grandparent.

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 most proud of in your school years?
  2. What was the most embarrassing moment of your school days?
  3. What do you wish someone had told you back then?
  4. Did you dance, play music or play a sport? Tell me about it.
  5. What was the naughtiest thing you ever did?

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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