Have you given your children the gift of their grandparents? Do you encourage that relationship, even if you’re not on the best terms with your own parents or your in-laws? We understand that not all grandparents are willing or able to be hands-on with their grand kids, but for those who are, there are great benefits. Grandparents are able to offer your children wisdom and a different perspective on the world.
Build bonds by asking these questions:
- What is your full name? Why did your parents choose this name?
- When and where were you born?
- What was your childlike home like?
- What kind of games did you play growing up?
- What is your earliest childhood memory?
- What was your favorite toy and why?
- What was your favorite thing to do for fun?
- Did you have family chores? What were they?
- Did you receive an allowance? How much and what did you do with it?
- What was your school like for you as a child? What were your best and worst subjects?
- Do you remember any fads from your youth? Popular hairstyles? Clothes?
- What was your religion growing up?
- Who were your friends when you were growing up?
- Describe a typical family dinner. Did you all eat together as a family? Who did the cooking?
- How is the world today different from what it was like when you were a child?
- Have any heirlooms been passed down to you from other family members?
- Who do I most look like in your family?
- When and how did you meet your spouse? What attracted you to him? Where did he propose?
- Where and when did you get married?
- How did you find out you were going to be a parent for the first time?
- Why did you choose my Mom/Dad’s name?
- What was Mom/Dad like when they were my age?
- Of all the things you learned from your parents, which do you feel was the most valuable?
- What is the one thing you most want people to remember about you?