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Childhood

PHASES OF LIFE

To help you get started, organize and to break down your LIFE STORY writing into small, bite-size (achievable) chunks!

  • Your birthplace and date and your name

  • Earliest memories

  • The people in your early life and what they were like and your relationships with them then

  • The home(s) you lived in

  • Friends

  • Pets

  • Activities, games, entertainment (radio, TV, outdoor and indoor games, playtime with family, friends, on your own)

  • School experience

  • Stories that stand out in your memory (good and bad)

  • Home life and daily life routines

  • Major world/local events and your experience of them (Pearl Harbor, WWII, Kennedy shot, MLK shot, moon landing, other war times, 9/11, etc.)

Family History

(Could be just parents and grandparents or whomever you wish to include)

  • Your parents – Who are/were they, who were their families and what are their backgrounds?

  • How your parents met and had you

  • Father’s family

  • Mother’s family

  • Father’s employment/Mother’s employment

  • Any stories of family members going back in time

  • Any special family members

  • What this ancestry means to you

Pre-Adolescence and Adolescence

 

Early Adulthood or College (if applicable)

 

Early Parenting Years

 

Family Growing Up Years

 

Your Children Become Adults and Have Children of their own

  • The people in your early life and what they were like and your relationship with them then

  • The home(s) you lived in, home life, daily life routines

  • Activities, games, entertainment, friends, pets, interests, cars

  • School experience

  • Love interests

  • Thoughts of your future

  • Stories that stand out in your memory (good and bad)

  • Major world/local events and your experience of them

  • The people in your early life and what they were like and your relationship with them then

  • The home(s) you lived in, home life, daily life routines

  • Friends

  • What you were learning (what you wished you were learning)

  • Romantic relationships (marriage and children, if applicable)

  • Activities, entertainment, interests

  • Challenges and successes

  • Work experience

  • Stories/milestones that stand out in your memory (good and bad)

  • Major world/local events and your experience of them

  • Relationships (how they are changing; new ones; importance; issues)

  • Becoming a parent

  • Home and home life, daily life routines, work and play, focus

  • Entertainment, activities, fun

  • Challenges

  • Successes

  • Stories/milestones that stand out in your memory (good and bad)

  • Major world/local events and your experience of them

  • Relationships (changing, growing, new ones)

  • Being a parent, growing as a parent/person

  • Home and home life, daily life routines

  • Community

  • Work

  • Entertainment, activities, fun, interests

  • Challenges

  • Successes

  • Losing loved ones

  • Stories that stand out in your memory (good and bad)

  • Major world/local events and your experience of them

  • Relationships with children as adults; other relationships

  • Friends and others

  • Becoming a grandparent

  • Home and home life, daily life routines

  • Work, retirement

  • Entertainment, activities, fun, interests

  • Challenges

  • Successes

  • Losing loved ones

  • Stories that stand out in your memory (good and bad)

  • Reflections on aging and a life well lived, lessons learned, words of wisdom