Comments on: Family Folklore

By: Well Read Hostess

Well Read Hostess — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:32:07 +0000

I love that my kids are getting old enough to start to hear some of the more outrageous stories…although I’m saving the naked chinese fire drills in Newport Rhode Island stories. Maybe for my wake.

By: venessa.levin

venessa.levin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:13:39 +0000

I love these family stories, 1-3 are especially beloved in our house. We simply replace your story 4 with our own version of “The time mom wouldn’t listen to Yiayia and ran into the metal gate resulting in the scar above her eye”….And PS. Aunt Juju still feeds the dog from under the table

By: Mo

Mo — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:01:14 +0000

My dad was the story teller in my family. I loved those stories. He grew up very very poor. But his stories always seemed (to us) to be funny and full of adventure. As kids, we just saw the funny parts. He eventually turned these stories into his memoires (along with some of the harsher stories of his youth). And although I did not inherit the story telling gene, our kids can tell you all about Doug’s many misadventures (most of which resulted in a trip to the emergency room . . .)

By: RuthWells

RuthWells — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:38:15 +0000

Wonderful. We’re already telling our boys stories of when *they* were babies, like “The Time Garrick Broke Mommy’s Nose with the Back of His Head” (a favorite) and “The Time Quinlan Fell off the Swing and Gashed His Knee.”

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:07:47 +0000

Great post! I agree that kids love these stories – it’s easier to imagine their parent as a child than it is to imagine themselves being an adult. When my boys got older, they used to request “real stories from your childhood” at bedtime.