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Questions to ask · For the next generation · for your Parents or Grandparents

What should I know about money and work?

Why this question matters

These answers become the page a family reads again and again. Ask gently, give time, and let them write it in their own words.

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 should I do when I feel afraid?
  2. What should I do when someone treats me unkindly?
  3. Which family story do you want me to pass on to my own children?
  4. What is one thing you want me to promise you?
  5. How do you want to be remembered?

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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