The Grandkids Are Coming: Tell Your Story
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 12:00AM You have lived through some of the most exciting, scary, boring, dangerous times. We were born before cell phones, microwaves, the internet, color pictures and Happy Meals. Many of us had just one car and our mother may or may not have been able to drive.
Tell your story to your grandkids in little bits and pieces. My father- in- law grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His life interests my kids. My dad grew up in an immigrant Italian family. He didn’t speak English until he went to school. His story interests my kids.
Tell your faith story. Not to proselytize but to revel what God has done and is doing in your life. That relationship has shaped your life and it is your story to tell.
Don’t wait until they are teens to start. Teens often (not my or yours of course) don’t care. Old people are just old. They start caring again about 22 year of age. Or so I am told.
You never know until you try.
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Reader Comments (4)
Love your blog; My hubby and I are also in the teen years...fun....fun....:)
I am 45, married for almost 18 yrs, 2 teens, 1 dog, bunch of cats; our lives sound kind of the same! :)
Love your blog; My hubby and I are also in the teen years...fun....fun....:)
I am 45, married for almost 18 yrs, 2 teens, 1 dog, bunch of cats; our lives sound kind of the same! :)
My paternal grandmother always told me the stories of family and I miss hearing all of that. I pass those stories onto my 18 year old daughter and she's always loved hearing them. I miss my grandmother. My maternal grandmother is 90 and I was never very close to her, but she is the sweetest ever and I wish I could spend more time with her hearing about her childhood and everything.
Passing on the stories is really important. It's a shame that a lot of us have gotten away from doing that. Good post.
You are so right. My kids love hearing tidbits about my childhood. What I think is trivial is fun for them to hear.