Why Do So Many Sacramento Children Visit Centenarians?
Visiting people means joy to children and senior citizens. By using an interactive teaching tool to learn about personal history interviewing techniques both young and old make friends. It’s about learning and listening to life stories of older adults at a retirement community in Sacramento. The result can be an intergenerational personal history project. Life stories have value. For finding numerous ideas for intergenerational projects, you may find helpful the book, 102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History and Genealogy. When an old person dies, it’s like a library closing. Children learn that personal histories can be archived, conserved, and preserved for future generations. For using personal histories as a teaching tool, one place to start is in the first grade where young and old can join together to celebrate the concept of intergenerational projects that bring people together to learn the value of each person’s life story. According to the Sacramento Bee article, Ja
