Round table activity

1. ROUNDTABLETALK
«GOOD OLD DAYS»
Erasmus+ project «Bridging three generations: timeless games and toys»
activity,
Grundzāles pamatskola, February, 2017
Project Nr. 2015-1-TR01-
KA219-021800_8

2. Participants
One greatgrandmother and her 2
greatgrandsons and her grandson’s wife
Grandmother and her 3 grandchildren
Mother and her son
Pupil’s aunt
PrincipalValda Elstiņa

3. Description of participants - adults
• All participants represented one part of our society (relevant to our topic):
• Greatgrandmother Ērika Trifanova– keeps family’s history alive, has time to be
with grandchildren and appreciates each day spent together
• Grandmother Mirdza Zeibote– a woman who wants to be with grandchildren and
spends a lot of time with them, especially because parents have to work – they
play, talk, work together
• Mother – she is quite old, the son is the youngest in her family and the
grandparents have past away, so the son can have only memories and pictures of
his grandparents, not real relationships
• Aunt – grown in children’s home, they don’t even know who the grandparents
were

4. Description of participants - children
• Grandchildren of Ērika – Gustavs, 12 years old, and Egils (7 years), and grandson’s
wife Jana, also the mother of Egils and Gustavs
• Grandchildren of Mirdza – Sandis, 16 years old, Haralds, 10 years, Estere, 8 years
• Son Kristers – 10 years

5. How do you define relationships with
grandchildren?
• Ērika: I am glad when they visit me, they get acquainted with physical work, no
one refuses to help.
• Mirdza:We see each other quite often, especially with smaller ones, it is every day
after school before parents come from work.There is not greater joy than to see
them. We play Ludo, Loto, Snakes and Ladders, Domino.The older grandsons help
in the farmsted.
• Krister’s mother: He does not even know his grandparents, because he is the last
son and is born after grandparents' death. So he can have just our memories about
our parents.
• Sandis: I want to meet her, to help her if she is not able to do smth. It is joy to be
there.

6. What can you learn from grandparents?
• Gustavs: «houskeeping» things, a lot of info about past
• Egils : I have learned that we need to work, you should not be lazy
• Estere: I have to tidy up my room
• Haralds: I have to help
• Sandis:Virtue of work, all kind of skills you need in farmsted, for example, to
make haystack, but he admits that these skills are dissapearing because of
modernization.
• Jana (grandson's wife): How to care about flowers (escpecially dahlija and phlox),
talked about II world war, about the first school.

7. ĒrikaTrifanova

8. Haystack

9. What can you learn from grandchildren?
• Ērika: We also need to follow the time, to get acquainted with new technologies.
• Mirdza:To take everything easier, not to worry so much about trivia.
• Kristers’s mother: Learned how to mow with trimmer (the son learned it first),
how to use a PC or other modern gadgets.

10. What are you talking about?
• Mirdza: We are talking about life: nowadays and previous times – school now and
then, about parents' life when they were children.
• Sandis: About relatives, history of family, family tree.
• What do you think about modern gadgets?
• Mirdza: Grandparents should atract grandchildren's attention by asking, rousing
to do smth together, by asking them to work together in farmsted.

11. Which generation is happier?
• Ērika:That is an another world. 4 generations are not comparable.Work, work and
one more time work – it was our time slogan, nothing else.
• Mirdza: Grandchildren are happier because they have more oportunities – they
can go everywhere and do whatever they want.