do you ever ask you grandparents or other older members in your family

They are all gone now but I used to listen for hours on end to my grandmama and my gran and mama and da. I loved to hear about how different their lives were. xoxoxoxoxo

I asked them that question from time, and they will tell me lots and lots of things, even though it means that they repeated the same old story, it's ok :). The point of my question is to make them feel happy knowing someone wanna hear to all those old story :) hehehe

When I was a kid my grand father was born in 1889, so in the sixty's he had seen quite a bit of change in our world, he use to tell of horse and buggy rides and how the weather had changed and things that they did for entertainment when he was a kid. He had been through the depresson and his first car cost $600. can u imagine, I couldn't get enough of his stories. He saw the world change in so many ways.

I never had to ask. Most older people are very eager to tell their stories and yes, they are amazing! Some of them really make you appreciate what we have now. They went thru so much! I used to just love listening to my grandmothers stories. They were a tough bunch....much tougher than we are, that's for sure.

I used to have these types of conversations with grandparents alot. Now unfortunately they are all gone. My Dad is the oldest left. When he is gone I guess I'll be the oldest. LOL

Both my grandpa and grandpa in law ever went to Korea in the Korea war. When my grandap was sitting on the groud, a shell came and blast beside him. He looked around, a box of bullet dispeared but he is not hurt. And he ever went to the American army's camp to search for some foods.

hi cher! i don't usually ask the older ones about their childhood. but there are times that we would just sit there and they would start talking. i remember when i was little, me and my older cousins with their mother and father would talk about ghost stories that they experienced when they were still young. they would tell us how they saw ghosts and other scary beings, how they got lost because of some weird creature, how they fought their fear. they are full of these kind of scary stories because we live in a province and back then, during their old times, scary and weird stuffs really do happen. i don't know if they were real, or if those stories really did happen or they are just pulling our legs, but i enjoyed those story telling times and i even told them to my friends. i kinda missed it actually.

Dear friend, My grandparents used to say stories of their old days and what was going on in their places and moreover I would also say about the present situations in schools compared to their time and also they would tell in very interestingly. More they told was their own struggle to become success in life.Historical things are less told and I was more interested in their own success stories.

I have never had to ask the question. My grandfather is all too willing to tell me. One of my grandfathers was a POW in WWII. More than ocasionally I hear the same stories. But that is ok. It is still interesting to listen to the people who have lived a part of history.

When I was in high school and college, I used to go out of my way to stop at my grandmother's apartment before going home. We always had tea and cookies together, and she talked about her life and gave me guideance in my own life. My siblings and cousins said that grandma always repeated her stories. Sometimes she did, but with the amount of time I spent with her, I learned so much. I always encourage people to talk to the elderly. Sometimes, just going to senior centers and talking to people makes their days and gives you such insight. If you'll listen. We used to value the elderly. We used to heed their wisdom. Now, we prefer to send the healthy ones off to Florida (even Canadians do that) and the not so healthy off to nursing homes.

I asked my grand mother that she had kept some old coins of the century before I asked that

I am a Great Grand parent by 6 times and I was raised in Arkansas on a farm. I can tell you exactly what farm life was like in the 40's and 50's. I wouldn't trade my childhood with anyone. The work was hard sometimes but we enjoyed life a lot more then than kids do today. We worked together as a family and produced most of what we consumed. We didn't suffer through the war years like most did. This built a closeness and a bond into our family that you just don't see now. For one thing we lived from year to year not from week to week like we do now. That gave us a lot less to worry about which sheltered our family from a lot of the problems we have now. We had no utility bills to worry about paying, we knew exactly where our next meal was coming from and we had a whole year to get ready for the next year. We had many times the security than what little we have now. Right now there is one thing for certain. I know exactly how to survive hard times, do you?

My great Grand father came over here from Syria and my grandfather used to always tell me about how backwards his father seemed compared to other dads. He also told me that he was 17 when America entered world war II but he counterfeited a birth certificate ( it was easy back then) so he could be drafted. He served in the pacific theater, and was awarded a purple heart because he got shot in the arm. luckily he was ok. I'm pretty sure he killed some people too, even though he didnt tell me, which makes him a very interesting person to me.