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Questions to ask · Family · for your Mom

What songs or stories did you give me at bedtime?

Why this question matters

Becoming a parent or a grandparent changes everything, and it is rare to hear what it actually felt like. This question lets your mom tell it from the inside.

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'd do differently?
  2. What do you see in me that reminds you of yourself?
  3. How did you find out you were going to be a mother? How did you feel?
  4. What was being pregnant with me like, or how did I come into your life?
  5. Tell me everything you remember about the day I arrived.

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Keep Mom’s answers in one book.

This is one of the 100 guided questions in Tell Me Your Story, Mom. Every page has room to write the answer by hand.

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