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Questions to ask · Life lessons · for your Parents or Grandparents

What does it mean to be a good man?

Why this question matters

Advice lands differently in someone's own words and handwriting. Asking for it is also a quiet way of saying their experience matters to you.

Ask it on a quiet afternoon, give time for the answer, and write down the small details. That is where the story lives.

  1. Is there anything you regret?
  2. What makes a life a good one?
  3. What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you?
  4. What do you know now that you wish you had known at twenty?
  5. What is something you changed your mind about as you got older?

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, Dad. Every page has room to write the answer by hand.

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