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A life story journal, from childhood to the advice they'd pass on.
A life story journal asks about a life in order, so the answers read like a story. This one has 8 chapters and 62 questions, and ends with a two-page letter to the grandchildren: a legacy journal you print at home.
Questions from "Starting out" and "Love and family"
What was your first job, and what did it pay?
Starting out
- What was your first job, and what did it pay?
- When did you first leave home? Where did you go?
- What work did you do over the years? What did you like best about it?
- What was the hardest stretch of your working life, and how did you get through it?
- What was your first car, or how did you get around?
- What did a dollar buy back then? Name a few prices you remember.
- Who helped you most when you were starting out?
- What are you proudest of from those years?
Love and family
- How did you meet the person you married, or the love of your life?
- What was your first date like?
- Tell about your wedding day, or the day you knew this was your person.
- Where was your first home together? What was in it?
- What do you remember about the day your first child was born?
- What were your children like when they were little?
- What family tradition did you start, and why?
- What was the hardest thing about raising a family, and the best thing?
- What is a funny thing one of your children said or did?
- What do you hope your family remembers about these years?