Everyone wants to leave a piece of themselves behind. Easier said than done, right?
The memory journals I purchased for my parents when my first child was born went unused. Too overwhelming and complicated, according to my parents.
I knew there had to be a gentler, more manageable way to help people record their life stories; which is why I created the Easy Family History Journal series.
The first in the series, The Growing Up Years, concentrates only on the first part of our lives. It touches on school, friends, music, dating, and more.
The 30+ prompts are conversational and friendly; and written with all ages in mind. And there are plenty of lined pages for you to tell your stories, too.
Here's one of the prompts:
Going to the movies was an event when I was a kid. There was one movie theater in town, and it was always packed. We didn't have VCR's or DVD's so if you missed a movie when it played in the theater, you'd missed it completely. Our movie theater was next to a High's Dairy Store, a convenience store that had the best ice cream ever. On hot summer days, we'd stop in High's after going to a movie and get an ice cream cone to eat on the mile walk home. What was it like going to the movies when you were growing up? Did you go to the same theater all the time? Who did you go with? What movies do you remember seeing in the movie theater when you were growing up?