Remember With Me

300 Gentle Prompts for Talking About a Life Well Lived Large Print Conversation Starters for Seniors, Families and Caregivers

von Marian Fenmore

128 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

You want to spend real time with them. You just don't know how to start.

Most visits fall into the same few sentences. How are you feeling. Have you eaten. Something about the weather. Then a silence that neither of you quite knows how to fill.

This book is three hundred ways past that silence.

It is not a quiz and it is not a memory test. There is no page at the back with the right answers on it, because there are no right answers. Every question can be answered any way at all, including not at all. Nobody can fail at this, which is exactly the point.

WHAT IS INSIDE

* 300 questions across twenty chapters, on the ordinary business of a long life: the kitchen on a Sunday, school days, the first job, the first car, Saturday nights, the neighbors, the dog that belonged to the whole street.

* A suggestion after every group of questions for when the conversation stalls. Not sure what to say next? The book tells you.

* Large print throughout, three questions to a page, so one page is one sitting.

* A short foreword on how to use it: leave the silences longer than feels natural, three questions is usually plenty, and never correct a wrong answer.

QUESTIONS THAT ACTUALLY UNLOCK SOMETHING

What did the kitchen smell like when you came in from outside?

Who taught you to drive, and were they patient?

Who called you in at the end of the day, and how?

Specific things bring back specific memories. "What was your childhood like?" brings back nothing at all.

WHO IT IS FOR

Adult sons and daughters. Grandchildren. Husbands and wives. Caregivers, care home staff and activity coordinators. Anyone who has an hour with someone they love and would rather spend it on something better than the weather.

Twenty chapters. Read one, or read one a week. It is not a book you finish.

• ISBN: 9798171866853
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp