Questions to ask your parents

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① EASY No vulnerability required.

  1. What's something you're enjoying lately?
  2. What's the best thing you've eaten this month?
  3. If today had a title, what would it be?
  4. What's a small thing that always makes your day better?
  5. What's the most useless skill you have?
  6. What did you want to be when you were eight?
  7. Which app on your phone would embarrass you most?
  8. What's a hill you'll happily die on, even though it doesn't matter?
  9. What could you talk about for an hour with no preparation?
  10. What's the last thing that made you laugh out loud?
  11. Where would you go this weekend if time and money were no problem?
  12. What's a song you'll never skip?
  13. What's something you're looking forward to?
  14. What was your first job, and what did it teach you?
  15. What's the worst haircut you've ever had?
  16. What's our funniest disaster?
  17. What was your favourite place when you were a child?
  18. What trouble did you get into as a teenager?
  19. What was I really like as a baby?
  20. What's a family story that gets told wrong every time?
  21. What's a family tradition you'd keep forever?

② CURIOUS A little more about you.

  1. What's something people often get wrong about you?
  2. What's a small decision that changed a lot in your life?
  3. What's a compliment you still remember?
  4. What are you secretly competitive about?
  5. What's something you changed your mind about in the last few years?
  6. What's a tradition you'd like to start?
  7. What's the most spontaneous thing you've ever done?
  8. What does a perfect ordinary day look like for you?
  9. What's a rule you live by that you made up yourself?
  10. Who has influenced you most without knowing it?
  11. Which family trait did you inherit that you're glad about?

③ PERSONAL Stories that shaped you.

  1. What experience changed the way you see life?
  2. When did you last feel really proud of yourself?
  3. What's something you work hard on that nobody sees?
  4. What does home mean to you now?
  5. What's a lesson you had to learn twice?
  6. What would you do more of if nobody was watching?
  7. What's a question you wish someone would ask you?
  8. When do you feel most like yourself?
  9. What's a risk you took that you're glad about?
  10. What did you want for your life when you were younger that never happened?
  11. What decision did you make before I was born that shaped my life?
  12. Who were you before you became my parent?
  13. Who in our family are you most like, and how do you feel about that?

④ DEEP The things still in progress.

  1. What is something you're still figuring out about yourself?
  2. What do you need more of right now, but don't ask for?
  3. What's a belief you hold that you're not sure you still believe?
  4. What part of your past do you want people to understand better?
  5. What does being loved look like to you, in practice?
  6. When have you felt that I wasn't really listening?
  7. What's one thing you wish we did differently when we disagree?
  8. What was the hardest part of becoming a parent?
  9. What do you hope I understand about you one day?

⑤ BRAVE The things you avoid.

  1. What's something you've been afraid to say?
  2. What's something you need to forgive yourself for?
  3. What's a question you're scared to ask me?
  4. Is there something between us that we've never talked about?
  5. What would you regret not saying if this was our last conversation?
  6. What's something I do that hurts you more than I realise?
  7. What's a conversation we keep avoiding?
  8. What do you need from me that you're not getting?
  9. What mistake as a parent have you made peace with?
  10. What's something you've never told me?
  11. What's something our family never talks about but maybe should?

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