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Questions to ask · Life lessons · for your Grandparents

What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you?

Why this question matters

A lifetime teaches things no book can. This question gives them a reason to put the lessons into words, and gives you something to return to when you need it.

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 know now that you wish you had known at twenty?
  2. What is something you changed your mind about as you got older?
  3. What does it mean to be a good man?
  4. What should a person never do, whatever happens?
  5. How do you get through the hard days?

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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