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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - 100-Word Challenge: Grandparents

 It's Saturday Night - 

Time for more Genealogy Fun! 


Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 

This SNGF is based on the 100 Word Challenge (http://100wc.net/) that school children around the world have participating in over many years.  They are given a word or phrase to write a story about in exactly one hundred words.  

1)  Write a story using the phrase "Grandparents are important because" in 100 words.  [Hint:  If you write it in a word processor, you can use Tools > Word Count (or similar) to count words]

2)  Share the story with all of us by writing your own blog post, writing a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Facebook post.  Please leave a comment on this post so others can find it.


Grandparents are important because they can give us insight into our family's heritage, culture, and traditions.  Their knowledge can give us context. They can teach their grandchildren life lessons, give advice and share life experiences. They give us unconditional love like no one else. Grandparents support us with words of encouragement, praise, high-fives, hugs, kisses, and much more. 


You can get to know them on a deeper level like a best friend. Once you get to know them, you admire their resilience, patience, empathy, etc., and see those characteristics within yourself which in turn,  leads to greater self-love and acceptance. 

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