20 questions to ask mom and dad
20 questions to ask mom and dad
1. What do you remember about the houses you lived in as a kid? Which one did you like the best?
Dad -
Blythe, England
McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Detroit, Michigan
apartment when you arrived
government housing when Jim & Brian were young
20529 Joann Street
Mom
Kirkcaldy, Scotlan
house you worked in
you sister's house in Toronto
wherever you lived in Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
apartment when you arrived
government housing when Jim & Brian were young
20529 Joann Street
2. What did you have as a child that kids today don’t have?
Dad
3 brothers
a dad who was a way most of the time
close family in Blythe
close extended family in McKeesport
Mom
4 brothers
4 sisters
3. Has anything ever happened at a family wedding that you’ll never forget?
4. Think of some relatives that have passed away in the last few years. What would they be doing right now if they were with you?
5. Which family member has been your greatest coach in life? How have they coached you? What has made them good at it?
6. When you were a teenager, which family member did you go to for advice? Looking back, was it good advice?
7. What was your favorite movie or book when you were my age?
8. Tell me a story about a family reunion or family party that you remember attending as a child.
9. What was the hardest thing you went through as a child? How did you overcome it?
Coming to the USA and being separated from you mother while she and Stan were in quarantine before you were all sent back to Blythe, England
10. What are your favorite stories that grandpa/grandma told (or still tells)?
11. If you could know anything about our family history or about a relative who has passed away, what would you want to know?
12. What is the most embarrassing thing your mother or father ever did to you?
13. What are your best memories of holidays or family gatherings as a child?
14. What three adjectives would your grandparents use to describe you?
15. Did your parents or grandparents ever lose their jobs? What happened? How did they start over?
16. What is the best thing that your grandparents ever cooked? What about your parents?
My grandmother Black made great blueberry pies
17. How did your parents change after they retired?
My Dad died shortly after he was officially retired at age 65.
My Mother died at 60-61
18. If you could go back to one day in your childhood, which day would that be? Why?
19. How are you most different from your parents and grandparents? How are you the same?
20. What did your grandparents do with you that you loved? What did they do that you didn’t enjoy so much?
© 2013 Christine Carter, Ph.D.
1. What do you remember about the houses you lived in as a kid? Which one did you like the best?
Dad -
Blythe, England
McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Detroit, Michigan
apartment when you arrived
government housing when Jim & Brian were young
20529 Joann Street
Mom
Kirkcaldy, Scotlan
house you worked in
you sister's house in Toronto
wherever you lived in Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
apartment when you arrived
government housing when Jim & Brian were young
20529 Joann Street
2. What did you have as a child that kids today don’t have?
Dad
3 brothers
a dad who was a way most of the time
close family in Blythe
close extended family in McKeesport
Mom
4 brothers
4 sisters
3. Has anything ever happened at a family wedding that you’ll never forget?
4. Think of some relatives that have passed away in the last few years. What would they be doing right now if they were with you?
5. Which family member has been your greatest coach in life? How have they coached you? What has made them good at it?
6. When you were a teenager, which family member did you go to for advice? Looking back, was it good advice?
7. What was your favorite movie or book when you were my age?
8. Tell me a story about a family reunion or family party that you remember attending as a child.
9. What was the hardest thing you went through as a child? How did you overcome it?
Coming to the USA and being separated from you mother while she and Stan were in quarantine before you were all sent back to Blythe, England
10. What are your favorite stories that grandpa/grandma told (or still tells)?
11. If you could know anything about our family history or about a relative who has passed away, what would you want to know?
12. What is the most embarrassing thing your mother or father ever did to you?
13. What are your best memories of holidays or family gatherings as a child?
14. What three adjectives would your grandparents use to describe you?
15. Did your parents or grandparents ever lose their jobs? What happened? How did they start over?
16. What is the best thing that your grandparents ever cooked? What about your parents?
My grandmother Black made great blueberry pies
17. How did your parents change after they retired?
My Dad died shortly after he was officially retired at age 65.
My Mother died at 60-61
18. If you could go back to one day in your childhood, which day would that be? Why?
19. How are you most different from your parents and grandparents? How are you the same?
20. What did your grandparents do with you that you loved? What did they do that you didn’t enjoy so much?
© 2013 Christine Carter, Ph.D.
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