If you could ask your grandparents (living or not) a question, what would you ask?

[DaisyDreaming]

I’m trying to do a notebook full of questions for a grandparent and looking for ideas of questions that people regret not asking their grandparent

I’d ask what he did in the war, and what life was like for him. He did tell me, but I was too young and more interested in playing than listening to him. I’d also apologise for being such a rude little arsehole and upsetting him.

I never knew mine as I was born after they died. I’d love to have heard about my parents as children.

I'd get grandad to tell me with brutal honesty how it was in WW2.

I would never, ever have asked him though.

Thank you. I’ve been asking War questions, he was quite young but living in central London right in the heart of the bombings.

It’s funny I’ve asked about my mums birth but never thought to ask what she was like. It shocked me how in one generation things changed so much. He left my Nan in a maternity hospital after the wildlife told him to go home as nothing would happen over night, they spoke too soon and not long after he left that my Mum was born. He was informed in the morning that the baby had arrived, and off he went to work in the office for the day before visiting after work. Amazing in just one generation, dads are in the labour ward every step of the way (if wanted)

I would ask my nan why she thought it was reasonable to lock a child (my dad) in a dark cupboard as a punishment. And what drove her to threaten to kick him out of the house when he was only five years old ( the only reason she didn’t go through with it is because two of my aunts stopped her). He doesn’t see much of her now (unsurprisingly.)

I wouldn’t ask it but I’ve always wondered how many children my grannies would have had if it had been their choice. They had 9 each. (that survived infancy)

ILoveMax I would ask the same. My maternal grandmother had 15 altogether, whilst being a farmer, but there’s 9 left now

Both of my Grandfathers had a lot of children

One routinely abandoned and abused his children and created highly dysfunctional adults with unnamed and unknown siblings beyond definitive numbering because of not being able to put him on the BC

The other favoured one child so dramatically, the resentment and rifts caused by it deepened after his death, and have left his children and thereby his grandchildren permanently alienated from one another. Two are dead now and both died estranged from at minimum two siblings.

So I guess I would ask them who in the ever loving fuck they thought they were and what in the ever loving fuck made them think they were so special ?!

Great Grandfather was at least highly respectable but his death in WW1 too tragic to bear thinking of really.

I would ask my paternal grandfather what life was like growing up in the Italian colonies and his role in WW2 in Africa

What my dad's childhood was like, from their perspective.

I'd ask my nana if she really regretted marrying my grandfather. She often used to say if she was ten years younger she'd divorce him.

I'd ask my grandad what it was like being a professional footballer in 1928, and what he thought of the game now. I have all his transfer records and contact papers from when he signed for out local, now championship football team.

I'd ask my granny what the fuck I did for her to dislike me so much? I can remember being about 5 or so, and her telling me she wished I was dead.