Getting to Know You Questions

 Mild:

Any upcoming travel plans?

What brought you here?

How do you two know each other?

When you're not working, how do you like to spend your time?

What are you reading currently?

What’s the first concert you attended?

Where do you most hope to visit?

What’s your favorite book?

What's your favorite 90’s show?

What's the best Halloween costume you've ever had?

What's your dream job?

What's your favorite word?

What was your first job?

What's one thing you're excited about that's coming up in 2018-2019?

What was the worst job you've ever had?

What is your most-used emoji?

If you could win an Olympic medal for any sport, real or fake, what would it be?

If you could change your name, what would it be?

What movie or TV show title best describes your week?

What was your favorite subject in school?

What’s your hidden talent?

If you had to eat one thing for every meal going forward, what would you eat?

If someone were to play you in a movie, who would you want it to be?

Medium:

If you could spend a day in someone else’s shoes, whose would they be? Why?

What's one thing your mother/father taught you that completely changed your life?

What’s been on your mind lately?

What’s the first career you dreamed of having as a kid?

What’s the last text you sent?

What's one of your favorite memories?

What's one thing about you that surprises people?

Who, or what, was your biggest teacher?

What was something you've done that made you feel extreme happiness?

Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give your 18-year-old self?

If you could instantly become an expert in something, what would it be?

What does success mean to you?

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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?

Where is your happy place?

If you could invite 3 people, dead or alive, to a dinner party, who would they be, and why?

How can someone win a gold star with you?

What energizes you and brings you excitement?

What qualities do you value in the people with whom you spend time?

For what would you be famous?

What does your dream day look like?

If you didn’t have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time?

What’s your guilty pleasure?

At what job would you be terrible?

If you had to choose only 3 adjectives to describe yourself, which would you choose?

Hot:

What do you give a damn about?

What is a dream you have that you’ve yet to achieve?

What's something you say you'll do, but never will?

What did you have to give up to achieve your current level of success?

Has anything ever happened to you that you could not, and cannot, explain?

Do you ever find there are things about you that people misunderstand? What are they?

For what are you most grateful today?

If you could have one 'do over' in your life, what would you do differently?

Of what are you most afraid?

INTERVIEW SOMEONE YOU LOVE ABOUT LIFE

 INTERVIEW SOMEONE YOU LOVE ABOUT LIFE

1. What comes to mind when you think about growing up in [hometown]?

2. What did you love to do as a kid, before high school?

3. What did you love to do in high school?

4. What do remember most about your teenage years?

5. What do you remember most about your mom (grandma)?

6. What was most important to her?

7. What do you remember most about your dad (grandpa)?

8. What was most important to him?

9. If grandma and grandpa had a message to you and their grandchildren, what do you think it is?

10. How did you meet [spouse] and know (s)he was the one?

11. How did you choose your career and what was your favorite part about it?

12. What made you successful at work?

13. What did you believe about yourself that helped you become successful and deal with hard times?

14. What times in your life truly “tested your mettle,” and what did you learn about yourself by dealing (or not dealing) with them?

15. What three events most shaped your life?

16. What do you remember about when each of us was born?

17. Were you ever scared to be a parent?

18. What three words would you say represented your approach to parenting and why?

19. When you think about [sibling] how would you describe him?

20. What message do you have for [sibling] that you want him to always keep in mind?

[Do the last two questions above for each sibling in your family]

21. When you think about [spouse], how would you describe her/him?

22. What message do you have for [spouse] that you want her/him to always keep in mind?

23. What three words would you say best describe who you tried to be in life and how you want to be remembered?

24. When they think about their careers, what do you want your children to focus on?

25. What have you learned about other people in life? (trustworthy, kind or not and mean)?

26. What do you think the world needs more of right now?

27. What do you believe people want the most in life?

28. What were the three best decisions you’ve ever made?

29. What are you most proud of in life?

30. What were five of the most positive moments of your life?

31. What message would you like to share with your family?

32. What are you most thankful for?

Writing Prompts about Childhood Memories

 

Writing Prompts about Childhood Memories

1. Who was your best childhood friend? Write about some of the fun things you used to do together.
2. Describe one of your earliest childhood memories. How old were you? What bits and pieces can you recall?
3. When you were little, did you ever try to run away from home? What made you want to leave? What did you pack? How far did you get?
4. Can you remember your mom’s or grandmother’s kitchen? Use sight and smell words to describe it.
5. Describe the most unusual or memorable place you have lived.
6. Did you have your own bedroom growing up, or did you share with a sibling? Describe your room.
7. Were you shy as a child? Bossy? Obnoxious? Describe several of your childhood character traits. How did those qualities show themselves? Are you still that way today?
8. What childhood memories of your mother and father do you have? Describe a couple of snapshot moments.
9. Write about a holiday memory. Where did you go? What did you do? What foods do you remember?
10. Describe your favorite hideaway.
11. Did you attend a traditional school, or were you homeschooled? Describe a school-related memory.
12. Think of a time when you did something you shouldn’t have done. Describe both the incident and the feelings they created.
13. Have you ever needed stitches, broken a bone, or been hospitalized? Describe achildhood injury or illness.
14. Do you have quirky or interesting relatives on your family tree? Describe one or two of them.
15. Describe your most memorable family vacation. Where did you go? Did something exciting or unusual happen? Did you eat new or unique foods?
16. Books can be childhood friends. What were some of your favorites? Why were they special? 
17. Did you grow up with family traditions? Describe one.
18. Describe a game or activity you used to play with a sibling.
19. What was your most beloved toy? Describe its shape, appearance, and texture. What feelings come to mind when you think of that toy?
20. Think of a childhood event that made you feel anxious or scared. Describe both the event itself and the feelings it stirred up.
21. Write about some sayings, expressions, or advice you heard at home when you were growing up. Who said them? What did they mean? Do you use any of those expressions today?
22. What are your happiest childhood memories? Describe one event and the feelings associated with it.

30 Life Questions to Ask Your Grandparents

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