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100 Questions for My Parents: (Pick some questions for your Mom and Dad to answer on home video)

  1. When you were a boy/girl, what did you want to be when you grew up?
  2. What was one of your happiest teenage days?
  3. What’s it like having grown up children?
  4. How often do you think about your mother and dad?
  5. What do you remember about your mom?
  6. What do you know about your maternal grandparents?
  7. What do you remember about your Dad?
  8. What makes a good Dad/Mom?
  9. What has influenced or formed your political thinking?
  10. What’s your favourite movie?
  11. What were the key events that changed your life?
  12. What’s the biggest difference between my world and the world you grew up in?
  13. How did you propose to Mom (Dad propose to you)?
  14. What happened on your favourite family holiday?
  15. What influenced and formed your political thinking?
  16. What’s your favourite movie?
  17. What’s your favourite season? Why?
  18. Did you ever see anyone die in the war? Do you think about those experiences?
  19. What’s your favourite book? Why?
  20. Where were you when man first set foot on the moon?
  21. How did you deal with your parent’s death? (If deceased)
  22. What did you always want to do for work, but never had the chance?
  23. What is your own Golden Rule?
  24. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken?
  25. How will I know when a risk is worth taking?
  26. What’s the most important thing to remember about money?
  27. What did you want me to be when I grew up?
  28. What is the mark of a good person?
  29. What do you love most about this country?
  30. What is the worst part about growing older?
  31. What’s the biggest difference between raising sons and daughters? (If applicable)
  32. Who has been your best friend?
  33. What makes a real friend?
  34. Is it possible to be a complete adult without suffering hardship, adversity, or danger?
  35. What do you believe happens when we die?
  36. What the best part of having children?
  37. What’s the biggest difference between my world and the world you grew up in?
  38. What were the key events that changed your life?
  39. Where would you most like to visit in the world? Why?
  40. What’s the good part about getting older?
  41. How did it feel to let me go to make my own life?
  42. How can I make each of my children feel as if they’re the most special?
  43. Who do you admire the most? Why?
  44. What do you think has been your greatest achievement?
  45. If you could go back and change one event in your life, what would it be and how would you change it?
  46. What did you like most and least about your Dad/Mom?
  47. What do you remember about Uncle/Aunt (name)?
  48. Have you ever carried a long-term grudge against someone? Why?
  49. Have you ever had to do something that took a lot of courage? What happened?
  50. Can you remember your parents really laughing? What was the cause?
  51. What do you wish you’d asked your dad/mom?
  52. Do you think you spent too much time at work when we were young?
  53. Do you think you were too strict with your children?
  54. Did you and Mom carefully plan how to raise us, or did you improvise?
  55. If you could change one thing about me, what would it be?
  56. What do you remember about my character as a young child?
  57. What’s your favourite song of all time? What does it remind you of?
  58. What’s the best time of life for a man/woman?
  59. What has been our proudest day as a husband/wife?
  60. Looking back through your dad, granddad, brothers, and so on, what characteristics do we all share?
  61. What were parties like when you were a young man/woman?
  62. What is a parent’s primary role – teacher, protector, provider, pal, or disciplinarian?
  63. What do you think has been the number one cause of our arguments?
  64. What makes a good son/daughter?
  65. How have you wanted your children to think of you?
  66. How does the role of a dad and a mom differ?
  67. What would you change about your style of fathering/mothering?
  68. All things considered, would you rather have grown up in your world or in today’s world?
  69. What is your favourite memory of spending time with me?
  70. What did you worry about most as I was growing up?
  71. How did you meet mom/dad? Where did you go on your first date?
  72. What did you worry about most as I was growing up?
  73. What did you always want to do with your kids, but never had the chance?
  74. How have you re-motivated yourself when faced with bad times?
  75. What was the greatest gift your parents gave to you?
  76. Have you tried to instil the same lessons from your parents in your children? Have you succeeded?
  77. When did you get your first car? What model was it?
  78. Did you go as far academically as you wanted?
  79. What was your happiest school day?
  80. What was your first job?
  81. How introduced you to mom/dad? Did you have to get around anyone?
  82. How did you feel when you heard you were going to be a parent?
  83. What was the first thought you had when you saw me?
  84. What is the fondest memory you have of me?
  85. How did it feel having more children? Did you want more children?
  86. Is there anything that you wish you had said to me that haven’t had a chance to say?
  87. Is there anything that you wish you had never said to me?
  88. Did you ever save anyone's life?
  89. Did you ever catch me doing something that I wasn’t supposed to do – and never said anything?
  90. What was your proudest moment as a parent?
  91. What was your scariest moment as my parent?
  92. Is there anywhere that you wanted to travel that you have not yet visited?
  93. Is there anything that you always wanted to do –but have not yet done?
  94. Who gave you the best advice you ever received? What was it about?
  95. What are your thoughts about religion?
  96. What did it feel like becoming a grandparent?
  97. Why is family important?
  98. What do you miss most as you get on in age?
  99. What is your earliest memory as a child?
  100. What is the one thing that you would like to know that I will accomplish in my life?