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Questions to ask · School days · for your Grandparents

What was the naughtiest thing you ever did at 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 did you want to be when you grew up?
  2. What did you do in the summer holidays?
  3. What music, films or radio shows did you love as a boy?
  4. What is one thing you learned at school that you still use today?
  5. What did you dream of becoming when you grew up?

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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