12/21/2025
Hopefully this holiday season finds you all connected with family, if not physically then through correspondence, or by telephone.
Donβt miss the opportunity to have conversations, ask the questions and take the pictures. With your older relatives especially.
Here are some questions to ask and document their answers:
1. What do you think you did right as a parent, grandparent?
2. Have them tell you about the day you were born, not the facts, the feelings.
3. Ask them if they see any part of themselves in you?
4. If you can, look at their oldest photos of themselves. Ask them who they were before they were anyoneβs parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle?
5. Ask them what dream they let go of when life started happening faster than they could plan?
6. Have them tell you the moment they realized you were no longer a kid anymore?
7. Ask them what they used to worry about, that doesnβt matter anymore?
8. Tell them one thing about them, that shaped you, that they never knew.
9. Ask them what they hope you will always remember about them?
10. Ask them what made them feel most loved in their childhood?
With, our parents, grandparent, aunts and uncles weβve only known them as adults. We have no idea what their lives before us were like, and even though we knew them while we were children during our growing up years, we only knew them as caregivers, and adults in whatever moment that brought us together.
There are so many things about their lives we had no idea of.
Dont miss any opportunity to take advantage of their stories , their wisdom and their memories .
Happy Holidays Everyone β€οΈπ