It can be a fun exercise to take lined notebook paper, label the lines one per year, and sketch out your life. "I was in elementary school from here to here; th

It can be a fun exercise to take lined notebook paper, label the lines one per year, and sketch out your life. "I was in elementary school from here to here; this summer I did foo". People often struggle ("well, this year I started working at foo, so that year I must have still been living in bar - ha, that isn't how I remembered it"). Doing columns or aligning papers can be fun for families - kids often have little sense of their parent's past.