Questions for Parents & Adult Children
For the relationship that changes the most as everyone grows. Helps parents and grown children actually see each other as people.
The List
- What’s something about your life right now you wish I understood better?
- What’s a memory from when I was younger that you treasure?
- What were you like at my age?
- What’s something you were afraid of as a parent that you never said?
- What do you wish you’d done differently, and what would you keep the same?
- What’s a way I can know you better as a person, not just as my parent or kid?
- What did your own parents get right or wrong that shaped you?
- What’s a fear you have about our relationship?
- What do you need from me at this stage of our lives?
- What’s something you’ve never told me but always wanted to?
- What are you most proud of about the person I’ve become?
- What do you hope we still have years from now?
- What’s a hard thing you went through that I never knew about?
- How can we be closer than we are now?