16 parents & grown children questions

For family & friends

1. 1

   What is a hobby you would love to share with me now that we are both adults?

2. 2

   What is something you never told me about your own childhood?

3. 3

   What is a rule from my childhood you would now admit was more about you than me?

4. 4

   What do you wish I asked you about more?

5. 5

   What did you worry about most when I was a teenager, and did it happen?

6. 6

   Which of these do you want more of from each other?

   • Visits
   • Calls
   • Honesty
   • Help
   • Being left to get on with it
7. 7

   What is something I do that you are quietly proud of?

8. 8

   What do you find hard about how our relationship has changed?

9. 9

   What did you need from me at a time I did not give it?

10. 10

    What do you want to say sorry for, and what do you want to be thanked for?

11. 11

    What do you want the last years to be like, and have we ever said it plainly?

12. 12

    What is one thing about your life I do not understand, that you would like me to?

13. 13

    What is a tradition you hope I carry on, and one you would not mind if I dropped?

14. 14

    What did you learn from your own parents that you decided to do the opposite of?

15. 15

    What do you admire about how I live that is different from how you lived?

16. 16

    What was the moment you realised I was an adult?

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