Your Parents' Story
Your parents have told you the same five stories for thirty years. There is a whole decade in there they have never mentioned. This is how you get to it.
Questions to Ask Your Mom That She Will Actually Answer
The problem is almost never that she does not want to talk. It is that every question you have asked so far requires her to claim her life was interesting.
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Questions to Ask Your Dad When He Does Not Talk About Himself
There is a whole category of question your dad will answer at length, and a category that ends the conversation in four words. Most people only ever use the second one.
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How to Get a Parent to Open Up About Their Life
If the questions keep bouncing off, the problem is usually the setting and the sequence rather than the questions themselves. Here is the order that works.
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How to Record Your Parents' Story Before It Is Too Late
Nobody loses a whole life at once. The small things go first, and the small things are what make a story worth reading twenty years later.
4 min read
25 Questions to Ask Your Parents, and How to Actually Ask Them
Most people ask their parents the wrong question and conclude their parents do not want to talk. Here are twenty five that work, and the way to ask each one.
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