https://www.lesliehelm.com/family-stories-dont-just-entertain-they-help-prepare-us-for-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-stories-dont-just-entertain-they-help-prepare-us-for-life Family History of Leslie Helm Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.lesliehelm.com/family-stories-dont-just-entertain-they-help-prepare-us-for-life/#comment-14 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:59:34 +0000 http://lesliehelm.com/?p=468#comment-14 Great article. Every person has a story and each one is important.
I find that most people in the States don’t bother asking a person from another country the important questions about their life before the US. Some of the best stories come from the parents and grandparents of my preschool students. They want to be asked about growing up in a war in Iran, or being in an arranged marriage. An Indian whose family had been in Uganda for six generations fleeing Idi Amin, An escape from Cuba and finding the greatness of freedom even if you were eating butter for dinner.
My own very Yankee family, overly proud (and prejudiced!) littered with n’er do wells!
They are our family stories. We own them and we need to pass them on.

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