Summary: Day 4 Challenge Instructions
Contact an older relative by phone and ask if they have 30 minutes for a call. They’ll love the opportunity to connect especially during this time of self-quarantining.
You can also do this challenge with an older friend or neighbor if you’re unable to connect with an older relative.
Ask them 10-20 questions. You can use the questions below as a guide or feel free to create your own.
Questions
- How did you meet my father/grandfather, mother/grandmother, uncle/aunt, etc?
- What special traditions did you have in your household growing up?
- What was your favorite t.v. show as a kid?
- Name an object from your childhood that you still own. What’s the story behind it, and why have you kept it.
- If you could relive one memory just for fun, what would it be?
- What’s your biggest regret? For example, if you could go back and make one decision differently, what would it be?
- What’s the greatest life lesson that you can share?
- What person comes to mind when you hear the word “hero.” Why?
- What has been your favorite vacation and why?
- Who was your best friend growing up and now?
- When you were in high school, what did you want to be “when you grew up?” What path did you ultimately choose and why
- What issues in the world were most important to you growing up? What about now?
- What’s your favorite food and why?
- If you have children, name each of them and describe their personalities when they were young.
- Who was the most famous person you ever met and where did you meet them?
- If money were no object, describe something you would have done or tried in your life that you didn’t. Describe why you chose that “something.
- Name one person from your whole life who made you laugh the most. Describe what that person did that was funny, and tell a story that always makes you smile.
- What is your favorite memory of me and why?
- What has been your greatest fear and what did you do about it?
- What was your favorite book, song, author, artist, actor, etc?
- What’s something about you that I don’t know?
Oh no…you ran out of questions? Keep going and just ask them whatever comes to your heart.
Note: Questions adapted from “The Story of My Life” journal by Piccadilly.
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