Questions to ask your parents and grandparents
Here are 42 example questions, by person and occasion. Use them at the table, or give them as a gift: then the answers become a book.
Questions grandpa will be asked
- What was your first job, and what did you earn?
- How did you meet grandma?
- Where did you like to play as a boy?
- Which news event do you remember best?
- What do you want your grandchildren to know about life?
- What is the finest thing you ever made with your hands?
Questions grandma will be asked
- What did the house you grew up in look like?
- What was your favourite dish as a child, and who made it?
- What was your wedding day like?
- What do you remember about the day your first child was born?
- Which piece of advice from your own mother have you never forgotten?
- What are you proudest of in your life?
Questions your mum will be asked
- What did you want to be when you were little?
- How did you meet dad?
- What do you remember about the day I was born?
- Which piece of advice from your own mother do you pass on?
- What was your first job, and what did you think of it?
- What are you proudest of in your life?
Questions your dad will be asked
- What was your first car, and where did you drive it?
- What was your own father like?
- What did you do in your first job?
- What do you remember about the day you became a father?
- Which mistake taught you the most?
- What do you want your grandchildren to know about you?
Questions to start with for your parents
- How did the two of you meet?
- What did your first home look like?
- What do you remember about your wedding day?
- What was the hardest year you went through together?
- Which tradition from your own childhood did you pass on?
- What do you want the grandchildren to know about you?
Questions to tell a whole life
- How did you celebrate your birthday when you were young?
- What is the biggest change you have seen in your life?
- Which year of your life would you like to live again?
- Who taught you the most?
- What do you wish you had known at twenty?
- What are you most grateful for?
Christmas questions to start with
- How did you celebrate Christmas when you were small?
- What was on the table at your house over Christmas?
- Which present have you never forgotten?
- What was the coldest winter you remember?
- Which family tradition do you want us to pass on?
- What was your best Christmas ever, and why?
Give grandpa and grandma a gift that lasts.
Setting up takes about five minutes, and the first question goes out this week.
