Here’s a prompt for writing about your parents, aunts and uncles, or other family elders.

This prompt is an opportunity to provide advice to the next generation in the form of a story. Writing about life and family situations that you experienced  is a way you can weave advice into a story so it is not consciously recognized as advice.

• Think of something your mother or father said regularly. Did one or both of them have short sayings or proverbs you heard them repeat? “Pick ’em up and put ’em down” was my father’s way of saying “Keep going and finish the project.”
• Tell us some of the sayings in your family and what the sayings meant to you.
• Does the saying come to your mind occasionally?
• Have you said it yourself?
• Have others around you started saying it?