Do you ever talk with your parents and/or grandparents, aunts, uncles, or others about their childhoods and teen years?
From my mother's parents, I learned what life was like for them in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. They both were 12 when that happened, but because of where each one lived in the city, they had very different experiences.
From my dad's parents, I learned where each had been born and what different places each lived while growing up. Those stories got me started on searching for information for our family tree.
My parents told my brother and me stories about their growing-up years during the Great Depression. Understanding their lives from their perspectives at that time, and later (during WWII), gave me great appreciation about how they handled money and valued family.
What can you learn by talking to your elders?
How can words or stories connect generations?
How can interactions between generations create conflict? Can words resolve these conflicts?
What can each generation teach the other?
Why might is sometimes be difficult for two generations to communicate?
Why might the words of the older generation be especially important at times?
What besides words can connect people of different generations?
Can someone please explain These questions
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@Writeacher, When you say "My parents told my brother and me stories about their growing-up years during the Great Depression." in the Forth Paragraph. It should be "My parents told my brother and "I"" Not "me".
Nope! Would you say, "She told I some stories" or "She told me some stories"?
You need to learn about how to use pronouns.
You need to learn about how to use pronouns.
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