Warm Up

1. What is a favorite memory from when I was little?
2. What were you like at my age?
3. What is something you wish we did together more?
4. What is a family recipe or tradition you want to keep alive?
5. What made you laugh the hardest when I was a kid?
6. What was your favorite age for me to be, and why?
7. What song did you play a lot when I was growing up?
8. What did I do as a kid that still makes you laugh?
9. What did you want to be before you became a parent?
10. What is a place you want us to visit together?

Get Real

11. What was the hardest part of being a parent, or being a kid, in our family?
12. What is something you learned from your own parents that you passed on?
13. What is something you see in me that reminds you of yourself?
14. How has our relationship changed since I grew up?
15. What is something you wish you had known sooner about each other?
16. What was the hardest stage of raising me?
17. What did you do as a parent that you are proud of?
18. What did I do as a kid that hurt more than I knew?
19. How have I surprised you as an adult?
20. What tradition do you hope I keep going?

Go Deep

21. Is there anything you wish you had done differently?
22. What do you need from me now that is different from what you needed before?
23. What is something you have never told me?
24. What are you proudest of in each other?
25. What do you want our relationship to look like for the years we have left?
26. Is there anything you need to hear from me?
27. What do you wish your own parents had told you?
28. What are you afraid of as you get older?
29. What do you hope I remember about you?
30. How do you want us to show up for each other from here?