Making and capturing moments with your grandparents is the most meaningful activity if you are lucky enough to have grandparents. Grandparents are the ones who care about you the most in a way different than how your parents take care of you. Regardless of how the world changes now, our grandparents still keep a lot of moments in the past like how things are exactly staying as it is, how lives were long ago, or any interesting stories from their youth times, even how one country woke up after a war (slightly different from what you have been taught at school, maybe?)

There are lots of differences between generations because the world we’re living in might not be the same. It changes along with the country’s development. Have you ever listened to your grandmother’s stories about one of her long-distance friends and how they communicate with each other when they were your age? You can find it old-fashioned, maybe cheesy but they are great stories I can tell, perhaps you can learn and use the experiences to live your lives.

Are you living with your grandparents?

Do you usually visit them on special occasions?

No matter how before was, preparing for the next visit is a need so the union will become more precious with lots of laughter and funny moments.

So what questions should you ask your grandparents? Which questions will certainly get your grandparent’s attention and let them know that you’re caring about them and the history of the family.

Here are some basic questions that you can ask.

1. What are the family values that your family realized?

Every family has an particular system of values that when your neighborhood look at, they will know you were born and raised in your family. These values could be about love, loyalty, respect, culture, ethics, tradition,.. everything that made you a human.

This myth is not always true, but perhaps your characteristics are shaped by your mom’s or your dad’s, sometimes both. Family values were there from a long time ago, and your grandparents grew up with these life lessons and now sharing these with you in the hope that you can teach your children and your grandkids some day.

2. What was a difficult situation that your family overcame together?

This question will be a little different depending on the period of time your grandparents was born. If your grandparents was born in the time of wars, you could hear a lot of emotional stories about how they have to live apart from their parents, how dangerous that time was and how people could die so easily, how your grandparents lived and grew up in that difficult time. If not, it could be about times of economic crisis and how they survived through that time. Believe me, every one of them all experienced a range of challenge in their adulthood and they all have good stories to tell.

Perhaps this question will help you understand your grandparents even more. The traits you’re seeing from your grandparents, they are shaped based on their past and experience. You definitely can learn something from theirs.

3. What’s one of the best childhood memories you can recall?

This question might catch your granparents’s interest. People always want to recall the best moment they had in the past, even if it’s a sad or happy moment. You will get your grandparents reminiscing, contemplating about that time. I guess you will see some similarity of your childhood in their stories. You can never hear any of these stories elsewhere, not on the Internet, not from some guys on the street because the stories from your grandparents will be much special.

Besides, I will give you some others question that you can ask based on your family’s theme.

4. What was a difficult childhood moment for you?

5. What was your first toy/car/pet?

6. When did you know you were ready to start your family or have kids?

7. What was it like being a first-time parent?

8. How many times have you been in love?

9. How did you handle stress as a couple?

10. What do you think happens when we die?

11. What’s a recipe you want to stay in the family?

12. What is your favorite thing about being a grandparent?

13. How important do you think college is?

14. If you could give me one piece of life advice, what would it be?

15. Which is more important, love or money?

16. Why do you think people stayed in marriages longer back in the day compared to now?

17. What’s something that you regret about your life?

18. What lessons did you learn as a child that you feel we should all learn now?

19. Do you think you have a better work ethic than the younger generation?

20. If you could include one thing in history books based on your own personal experience, what would it be?

21. What advice would you give to future generations?

22. Do you have any advice for approaching love?