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Questions to ask your Grandparents

Grandparents are the most experienced persons of the family. They are usually old age, retired and senior citizens with lots of knowledge about the world. In Asian families, grandchildren usually live with their grandparents. However in western cultures, grandpa and grandma may or may not live with their grandchildren. 

If you are sharing a home with your grandparents, you are in your golden period. You can learn from them a lot and can make them your partner in crimes as well. You need to take care of your grandparents too since they are old and are unable to live back their life!

Questions to ask your Grandparents

Fun Activities with your Grandparents

Here are a few activities that may help you to spend time with your grandparents and you can ask them questions during spending times with them:

1. Learn knitting from your grandma:

Well girls need to learn knitting from their grandmas! This traditional art is an amazing activity and you can spend lots of time with your old Grandma. Grandparents enjoy teaching their grandchildren, and it is fun while learning things from them. Grandparents have long stories that have healthy life lessons, necessary for moral growth and learning old school respect.

2. Take your Grandpa to walk in the park:

Grandparents usually are old and can’t walk for long. Usually they are at a resting position, but you need to help them walk so their metabolism gets exposed to fresh air. Grandpa and Grandma gossips are the best recreational time you can have!

3. Ask and make traditional Recipes:

Teen age girl and grandma cooking cookies

Traditional recipes from Grandmas are the best snacks you can have. Practice cooking such recipes and enjoy it as a family. Grandparents experiences are so rich and you will never forget the apple pie you had with them!

40 Questions to ask your Grandparents

Time spent with grandparents is another kind of experience. You will feel like re-enjoying the century back. The difference in time, communication skills, preferences and priorities of women and men at the age of your grandparents recreate the old that is definitely the gold!

When you are with your grandparents, you should keep asking questions from your grandparents to let them speak about their own time. 

Multigenerational household will definitely help you re-develop the taste of your life. Old school thoughts, values, the travel back in time will feel like phenomenal changes in your life! If you are really this lucky to have grandparents at your home do not miss the chance of spending time with them! Some people actually crave for this!

Following are the list of 40 questions that you should ask from your grandparents to see the world with your eyes.

  1. How was life back then at their time? How would the people of your grandparent’s time live without technology?
  2. How was the school system at your grandparent’s time?
  3. If they were living in a village life, what were the challenges of living such a life without the basic facilities like electricity, light, and technology?
  4. What was the difference between the years back at that time when your grandparents were young and now when they are old?
  5. What do they actually miss from their old time? What is that not possible in this life?
  6. What were your expectations from your future? How did you want to live when you grew up?
  7. What did they want to be when they grew up? What were your aims and preferences back then?
  8. Did you achieve your ambition what you decided back then? If not, why not? 
  9. If you achieved what you aimed for, how would your life become different later on?
  10. The only thing you regret in your past life? How would you change it if you were allowed?
  11. If you are taken back to allow a change in your life by some fortune, what do you want to change in your life? How will you try to mold your life again?
  12. Did you have a pet? Where did it go? How do you overcome the pain of letting go of your pet?
  13. What is the biggest lesson you had in your life? 
  14. Did you believe in miracles when you were a child? 
  15. How many miracles happened in your life and how it changed you?
  16. Did you count stars in your childhood?
  17. What were your favourite pastimes and hobbies in your childhood? 
  18. Did you love gardening? Is there any plant that actually grew up with you?
  19. Did you like reading?
  20. Who was your favourite writer when you were small? Did you like adventurous books, fiction or nonfiction?
  21. Were you adventurous as a kid? How many times did they do mischief that turned actually serious?
  22. What is your greatest achievement in life? How did you achieve your huge achievement and with whom did you share it first?
  23.  What were their kids, your parents like when they were kids? 
  24. How were your grandparents as the real parents? 
  25. Are they strict and would scold or beat their children?
  26. What is the greatest mischievous thing your parents did in their childhood? 
  27. What was the greatest moment when your grandparents were actually proud of their kids?
  28. How did they have a family environment back then? How is it different from now?
  29. What were your grandparent’s expectations from their kids?
  30. How did their marriage life go? How did marriages work back then?
  31. How they solved conflict amongst themselves as a couple? How many times they had serious arguments and how did they deal with it?
  32. What do they expect from their grandchildren?
  33. What are their thoughts about gadgets like mobile phones, laptops and diverse websites?
  34. What do they actually suggest to their young grandchildren for their life?
  35. How were the eating styles different from their time to till today?
  36. How science and the advancements of science appear to them?
  37. What were their favourite TV or radio shows back then?
  38.  Does this modern age horrify them?
  39. How does it feel like being old?
  40. Can they believe that Neil Armstrong actually landed on the moon? What do they think of landing on different stars like Mars or any other planets and what are their expressions about aliens? Do aliens exist? 

Definitely you will get the best answers!

You can’t imagine what these questions will lead you to!

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