Chapters
- What was/is your relationship with your siblings? Has this changed?
- Were your parents strict?
- Remember your first car?
- What’s an achievement in your professional life that you’re proud of?
- What did you want to be growing up?
- Where did you meet your life partner?
- Did you have a nickname at school?
- What are some of the most important elections you voted in? What made them important to you?
- What country that you’ve travelled to has surprised you the most?
- What do you know about your family tree?
- What’s the first major news story or political event you remember living through as a child?
- What fascinated you as a child?
- Have you met any famous people?
- Do you have childhood friends you are still in touch with today?
- How did you rebel as a teenager?
- Do you have any notable ancestors?
- Tell us about a fun school trip you had as a child?
- Have you lived through any wars?
- Was your llife ever in danger?
- Did you go to any youth groups or summer camps?
- What’s the earliest birthday party you remember?
- Did you ever run away from home?
- How did your parents choose your name and does it have any special meaning?
- What are your memories of university/college?
- What do you remember about your family home?
- When did you first fall in love?
- What pieces of wisdom did your grandparents pass on to you?
- Where and when was your first date?
- Describe your father and write one favourite memory about him.
- Have you ever experienced a supernatural event?
- Where are your parents/grandparents from? Do they speak any other languages?
- Who was your favourite teacher and why?
- Do you remember your first job interview?
- What are your memories of primary school?
- Write about one of your happiest childhood memories?
- Describe your mother and write about one favourite memory with her.
- If you could give your younger self advice, what would it be?
- What is your earliest memory?
- Is there anything in life that has made your faith stronger? Or weaker?
- What family values were you brought up with?
- What was the most profound spiritual moment of your life?
- Did you have any serious accidents as a child?
- In your experience what makes a happy family?
- What was your first job?
- What are you most grateful to your parents for?
- How has being a parent changed you?
- What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
Your story – Heather Scott
Were your parents strict?
I don’t remember any specific house rules apart from my dad being very rigid on food if we said we didn’t like anything or wouldn’t eat anything we were not allowed anything else, I remember my dad always saying you have two choices you eat it or you go without. I don’t really remember them being overly strict as long as you were not rude to people and were respectful and do as you were told when you were told, if you didn’t then you knew about it.We had to be in at a certain time but as far as I remember it wasn’t too early.
I do remember once, I was friendly with the girl whose parents ran the local pub where mum worked, she took a packet of cigarettes from the pub that she and some others were going to smoke only she didn’t have any matches so I went and got some from home for them, I didn’t smoke as I thought they were idiots. Her parentys found out that she had taken the cigarretes and I think I owned up to my mum about getting them the matches, she didn’t tell me off but threatened to tell my dad so I begged her not to if I promised not to do it or anything like it again, we both kept our promise.
I also remember once when I was a teenager my friends from school Jeanette and Gaynor lived in a village called LLanharry and they asked me to go with them to a dance in their local hall one Saturday night, my dad wouldn’t let me go because he remembered it being a rough place when he was young.