I've been intentionally asking my parents about their childhood and family

I've heard stories growing up but having them walk through details like their favorite childhood memory, career mentors, what was surprising when they first became parents, etc has been really enlightening and I'm glad to have those stories!

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1/ Reading "The Tail End" of the Wait But Why blog post a decade ago changed my life. Since then I've been even more intentional about my relationship with my parents (very lucky they are both alive and healthy)

- started "interviewing" them about many childhood and family details e.g. what was their favorite childhood memory, who were their career mentors, what surprised them when they first became parents, etc. I've heard many stories growing up but this has been enlightening and unlocked a lot for me + made us all closer

* there's a deck of conversational cards "Parents Are Human" that provide prompt questions and they support many languages with bilingual cards, my parents opened up more through reading Chinese
* we used Storyworth for my mother-in-law which emails her questions each week and compiles all her stories into a physical book
* using chatGPT to generate questions has been great

I elaborated on this since had several people ask

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I elaborated on this since had several people ask https://warpcast.com/linda/0x300d0656

Are you using Storyworth or a similar product?

please share the questions if you please 🙏 we should all answer questions like these for posterity

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