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Twelve questions to ask your parents while you still can.
Most of what a person knows leaves with them — not because anyone hid it, but because nobody asked. These twelve questions are how you start asking.
Bring them to a Sunday phone call, a long drive, a kitchen table. One at a time is plenty.
Free, no email required. Printable — one question per page, with room to write.
1
What's your earliest memory — the first thing you're sure you actually remember?
2
How did you and Mom (or Dad) actually meet — the real version, not the short one?
3
What was your father like? What do I not know about him?
4
What's something you wanted to be, before life picked something else for you?
5
What's the hardest decision you ever made — and would you make it again?
6
What did your parents’ house smell like, sound like, feel like on an ordinary evening?
7
Who was your best friend when you were young, and what happened to them?
8
What's something you're proud of that nobody ever asks you about?
9
What do you believe now that you didn't believe at thirty?
10
What's a moment you'd live over again, exactly as it was?
11
What was I like as a child — the parts I was too young to remember?
12
What do you want us to know, later, that you've never quite said?
Write the answers down, or better, record them — a phone on the table works. The stories don't need to be polished. They need to be kept.
Delia Notebook is being built for exactly this: a private notebook with a memory, where a parent’s stories, in their own words, become a letter, a reel, and a book their family can hold.
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