What Could Your Parents Do?

[Matheous-2]

What could your parents do that would be memorable once they've gone?
eg., a piece of artwork, poem, song......Something else?
All suggestions welcome and appreciated.

[bednobs]

find a cure for cancer

[Canary42]

Killed fighting the Nazis.

[Psybbo]

Memories

[MallyJ]

They could sit down and write their memoirs .. I would have them bound and give a copy to all their descendants who are currently alive. Sadly it is too late now. What a thing for the family archives.....

[Psybbo]

Malloy, you put it so much better than I did

[Sycamore3House]

Their outlook/attitude to life that was far removed from their background.

[Psybbo]

Mally ^^

[VHG]

Plant a tree or trees.

I like the idea of memoirs.

My mother and father are both now dead, but my brother and sisters talk about them and say how little we know of their own childhood, how they met, their early life together, what they did in WW2 and so on.

[Prudie]

I so agree with memoirs. Since my mother died 5 years ago I've lost count of the times I've wished I'd asked her this or that. With technology it might be nice to have it spoken/recorded so their voices are remembered.

[woofgang]

All my parents need to to do was be themselves.

[Zacs-Master]

Surely they couldn't do anything once they've gone?

[mrs_overall]

^^^^^pedandtic git!

I am with Mally on this one

[Zacs-Master]

Bit strong.

[mrs_overall]

It was tongue in cheek.
Sorry if you thought I was eating a humbug ;-)

[Zacs-Master]

Ah, right. ;-)

[Retrochic]

Keep diaries. I have some of my fathers and can go back to say Tuesday 8th September 1973 and read exactly what he was doing (oh and the weather and what wild life was about at the time)

[Prudie]

LOL I found an old diary I'd kept at secondary school the other day. It was full of things like 'saw Graham on bus', 'talked to Pete today, I love him'.
I have no recollection of who those people were ;-)

[zebo]

Get them to talk about the past and record it. When my Aunt died, my Mother had us in hysterics talking about their childhood, but we didn't think to record it, though we had tears streaming when the Vicar called, which he thought was appropriate. A voice trumps everything else.

[Retrochic]

Yes Prudie but I think the diaries of a Wing Commander during WW11 and his subsequent life may be a tad more interesting than your teenage crushes :-)

[Retrochic]

zebo -the written word is best. I have 'tapes' of my wedding and children s milestones I can't view because the machines to play them are obsolete.