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Packing Grandma’s Trunk

Packing Grandma’s Trunk. Helping others tell their story. Everyone has a story to tell. We discover too late that we didn’t listen. And we didn’t preserve the stories. Family history is important. It can be the tie that binds generations together Strengthens individual bonds

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Packing Grandma’s Trunk

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  1. Packing Grandma’s Trunk Helping others tell their story

  2. Everyone has a story to tell. We discover too late that we didn’t listen. And we didn’t preserve the stories.

  3. Family history is important • It can be the tie that binds generations together • Strengthens individual bonds • Increased interest in stories

  4. Family history helps students relate to historical events and people • Brings textbook information alive • Can change the course of life for younger family members

  5. Family history provides a sense of belonging • Establishes roots-a sense of “group” • Provides sense of family accomplishment • Can reduce attraction of gangs for adolescents

  6. Provides foundation of values and beliefs • Improves child’s ability to deal with life from perspective of his/her family values and beliefs • Increases understanding of expectations • Teaches life lessons • Increases understanding of failure and success

  7. Reminiscence therapy • Provides sense of focus and purpose for life • Increases mental sharpness/physical health in elderly population • Organizes events of one’s life in their mind • Places positive and negative in perspective • Helps to deal with unresolved issues • Helps them discover meaning

  8. Reminiscence Therapy • Raises self esteem • Increases understanding of value of life • Provides platform for sharing • wisdom • lessons • instruction • Strengthens sense of identity • Recognition of strengths/weaknesses • Recognition of accomplishments/failures • Recognition of “who am I/who was I”

  9. Reminiscence Therapy • Helps deal with anticipatory grief • For those who are dying or those nearing end of life, in final phase • For the family • Increases ability to cope with the future or lack of future

  10. How to begin… • Many ways to get started…

  11. But… Let’s take a look at using our STUFF

  12. We all have it… • Americans are obsessed with our stuff • Memorabilia • Items of value • Keepsakes • Family heirlooms …It holds our memories

  13. But have we shared them? Like an antique watch or a pair of old eyeglasses passed down generation to generation, the passing on of someone’s story can be a treasure for the family that will encourage celebration and memories each time it is read, heard or seen.

  14. Packing Grandma’s Trunk is one way to do that

  15. Use trunks, hat boxes, suit casesDoesn’t matter – the important part is tellingthe story, sharing the memory associated with each item, making sure the story is with the item.You can even write down the stories and leave the “stuff” in place for generations to find later.

  16. “This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.”--Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe

  17. Sherry LittleExecutive DirectorHome Hospice of Grayson, Cooke & Fannin CountiesP. O.Box 2306Sherman, Texas 75091903.868.9315sherry.little@homehospice.orgwww.homehospice.org

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