When you're old, what do you think children will ask you to tell stories about?

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Something funny, something educational or something random?

BlueCoyote · Accepted Answer

If my grandchildren will be anything like myself, they will probably ask me similar questions to the ones I used to ask my grandma: What was the world like when you were a child? Did you have flying cars and smart robots back then? What kind of food did you eat? What was school like when you were young? Was it very different from school today? How did you meet grandma? Why did you fall in love with her? What kind of political event shaped your way of thinking a lot and why? What were the happiest moments in your life and which ones were the saddest/toughest? What were our great great grandparents (so, basically my grandparents) like? Things like that.

My family has started a pretty cool tradition of writing down one's entire life as a book-long project but without the intention of publishing it. My grandma began this tradition about 4 years before she passed away. Originally, her memoirs were going to be +100 pages but unfortunately she couldn't finish them because she died in between. Still, we have about 50 pages and because she wrote her memories down in a chronological order, they are mostly about her childhood, her youth and her life until about age 40. For me, these are also the most interesting memories. My mom is only in her 60s but she has already begun to do the same thing and said she will add the last 20 years of her life in a diary-like way. My siblings and I will probably get to read this text after she passes away. I think that's such a cool idea. My older brother and I have already decided that we want to continue this tradition and do the same thing once we get into our 60s or 70s. How incredibly fascinating would it be to have memoirs of my great great grandma who was born during the early 1800s! I can't imagine all the interesting things she might have had to say to her descendants. Well, for my grandchildren, this might actually become a possibility because my grandma was born in 1923 and, if my estimates are correct, my grandchildren will probably be born around 2056, which means they'd be about old enough to read these memoirs by 2071. That would be a time gap of 148 years. Some of the things my grandma has written will probably make their heads explode. And if they continue the tradition, maybe some kid in the year 2360 will lie on their bed and read the crazy things I wrote about my childhood in the old millennium.

NearlyNapping · Accepted Answer

I'm 62 and nobody has ever asked me to tell them a story. Young people generally aren't interested in that stuff. They live in the moment and don't care what some old fart did 50 years ago.

It's usually not until the "kids" are older themselves that they become interested in what their parents and grand parent's generation did. Both of my parents died over 12-15 years ago, and I wish I had asked more about their younger lives.

This reminds me of a video I saw just yesterday. This old guy was on Johnny Carson. He was the oldest working farmer in the state of Illinois at the time. I think he's 97 and he seems really healthy and alert, with a good sense of humor.

Salmon4056 · Accepted Answer

They would ask me to create a random exicting story or what had happen after the last episode of the animated show I produced

PinkChampagne · Accepted Answer

How I met their father 😊 stories from my childhood

GuyWhatRunsThePlace · Answer

4chan. The original 4chan. I am an ancientfag, I am an progenitor of the end. I remember longcat and towercat. I remember Benjamin Franklin and Duck. Zero hour was my final hour. Then I'll show them 2D pictures of moot and I drinking bubbletea, videos of the panels at Otakon, and cry myself to sleep because y'all weeaboos closed the pool too many times.

ZanyInternetName · Answer

I don't know what type of stories I'll have to tell. Maybe something about my travels, or my time spent living abroad. These are really the only stories I have as of now, but I hope that it won't be the only ones I'd have to tell my grandchildren. Hopefully it wouldn't be, like my grandfather's stories, about "the war", but maybe about something like "that time you had a business" or such. Who knows? At the very worst I may just read from the brethren Grimm.

Deathraider · Answer

I'll tell them about the old day.

"Back in my days, they had something known as Snapcrack."

"You mean Snapchat grandpa? We learned it in history class."

"No. Snapcrack. These narcissistic addicts on Snapcrack. Now did I ever tell you about the Adpocalypse of YouTube?"

VincentLaw · Answer

I'm still so young. Probably whatever this century's big wartime was like. That and technology, such as gas cars. Maybe what small-town Idaho was like before it became metropolitan

TadCurious · Answer

"Grandpa, please tell us the story again about how Girls Ask Guys was back in the early days! Did they REALLY used to give you a gift card for your Xper points?"

pitzi · Answer

Army... wars... at least I'd hope they'd ask about that! 😂

JellyDonutguy96 · Answer

back in my dad,  young children your grandmother would post topless photos on instagrams, yep it was a weird time, why did grandmother do it, Grandpa because all the other girls did it

JohnFrost · Answer

about financial crisis and anything that changes in the past 80 years. Early days of the internet, pre-smartphone, And when the netherlands where twice as big. Tell them about the sunken city of amsterdam

beebella · Answer

You mean my grandchildren? Probably my past lovers.

4yourpleasure · Answer

I am old. Children don't ask as a rule. Unfortunate. Children in their 40's start to ask of their elders

grayce131 · Answer

I usually ask my older relatives about the technology and the way people dressed when they were younger.

zoe2187 · Answer

My children think it’s hilarious to ask if cars were invented when I was young. 😑

winterfox10 · Answer

Probably about the first time I met mommy, or what it was like driving gasoline powered engines or something.

TheSikuu · Answer

"What was it like without robots, did you have to do EVERYTHING?" "Wtf is diesel?" "What's this oldass green paper?" "What was it like to get sick?"

Johnmiller123 · Answer

The first iPhone, CD players, 9/11, Donald Trump, malls, Toys R Us, gas cars maybe, box tv’s, cigarettes.

DiegoO · Answer

What is like to be in a forest... What is like to drink fresh water... What is like to see birds flying, to go finishing... Etc

porpose · Answer

They would never ask but i would guilt them into listening me ramble about whatever shit i feel like talking about at the moment

Anonymous · Answer

"Tell us this time that you ran away from home and crushed grandpa's ferrari without him knowing." Ah, good old times.

Desconhecida · Answer

Kids might ask me how I eat without teeth. I would show them my middle finger

Demised · Answer

I don't think they would have time for an old joke.

Exterminatore · Answer

Hopefully not my sexual exploits or I’ll be in trouble.

call_me_scar · Answer

Why did anyone spend more than a dollar for a fidget spinner

Aynsof · Answer

I can already tell them of the rise and fall of DVDs and CDs... I feel old already

Seppelson · Answer

I don't think I will have kids but theoretically I think kids even today are not asking their grandparents things. Kids today doesn't want to talk much they want a PC or a mobile and that's all

TheFlak38 · Answer

Usually the grown ups start to tell a story and the child asks along the way.

MrExplorer · Answer

Young people already ask me how I bought things when I was younger, since there was no internet :)

HereIbe · Answer

"You were allowed to have TOBACCO and weren't sent to prison for your entire LIFE? HOW?"

Amj380 · Answer

Definitely my school life, maybe life with my siblings and parents in childhood.

Minahh · Answer

Probably about my teenage years or how does the universe work.

EnocV · Answer

How i met my wife.. How was before the tv... Or what kind of music we use to listen..

Sixgun77 · Answer

They'll ask about what life was like before new technology they take for granted.

Chris_Humble · Answer

I think they will want to hear tales of the mythological, then extinct leftists.

yourfutureboyfriend · Answer

Oh shit that's a really good question actually hmmm Shit i can't come up with anything funny you win

hipstera17 · Answer

Some random cool stories that children would go crazy about.

kydlow · Answer

pfft ill never have, or be in contact with children

Skullpool · Answer

My tattoos, how I meet her grand mother, how their parents were when they were young lol

brandon83072 · Answer

Well I want to have a long term job in the military. So they might ask me about that when I get old

Masonism · Answer

Harambe and early meme culture. 🦍

kaewk · Answer

How I’ve aged so well.

Shutupman · Answer

I hope kids won't ask me anything.

DoctorWize · Answer

lol My interesting life probably.

Salsacumbia · Answer

When i met my true love!

Ceramic_bloke · Answer

What the world was like before the war. 😂😂😂😂

DollySummers · Answer

I would pull it towards fairytale sounding.

dreamstar72 · Answer

Nothing they won't really care.

marilynmansonssextoy · Answer

i won't have children.

Nada_Brahma · Answer

I'd give them wisdom lol

Joshua22 · Answer

What it was like in my time I don't know lol

JSmuve · Answer

Probably how we communicated without smartphones.

Naydyonov · Answer

What was life like before smart phones?

Beauxbreaux · Answer

I don't think they will be interested.

Afaq135 · Answer

My Relationships before marriage

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

I'll tell them about 2012 lol

rachelle_28384 · Answer

Not sure wbat they would ask

the_sinner · Answer

About how the technology advanced.

Autograf · Answer

Future kids dont need to hear a Stories

Chillybeary · Answer

I think they'd ask how things were back in the day

priyaagra · Answer

I think they will ask about my love life

bispy · Answer

Something random ang funny

Redaaa · Answer

Why are u so handsom :D

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