40 Questions for Family
Families talk a lot and ask little. Whoever asks their parents about their youth, or their sister about what she wished for back then, discovers people they thought they already knew. These family questions work for adults and teenagers alike.
They work best when everyone answers, parents included. Pick one question per meal or per drive, and let the answers stand without judging them. With HYTCH you can share questions like these even when you are not at the same table.
The questions
- 1
What is your earliest memory of our family?
- 2
What did you know for sure at 16 that later turned out to be wrong?
- 3
Which family tradition do you absolutely want to pass on?
- 4
Which family tradition would you happily get rid of?
- 5
What did you wish for more of from your parents as a child?
- 6
Which trait runs through every generation in our family?
- 7
Who in our family did you underestimate for a long time?
- 8
Which decision in our family do you still not understand today?
- 9
When did you last feel truly understood in our family?
- 10
What have we never talked about openly in this family?
- 11
What was the happiest day you spent with us?
- 12
What were you afraid of as a child, and did anyone know?
- 13
Which piece of advice from your grandparents did you only understand later?
- 14
When was a time you felt alone in this family?
- 15
What do you want the next generation to know about you?
- 16
Which story about our family do you like telling the most?
- 17
Which argument in our family still stays with you today?
- 18
What are you grateful to your parents for?
- 19
What would you like to apologise for in this family?
- 20
What do you wish for us as a family?
- 21
Who in our family understands you best, and why?
- 22
When did you last marvel at yourself as a child?
- 23
When did someone in the family last surprise you?
- 24
What role do you play in our family, and do you like it?
- 25
What would you have liked to tell yourself at 20?
- 26
Which smell takes you straight back to your childhood?
- 27
What matters more to you in raising children than it did to your parents?
- 28
What is the best thing your siblings have ever given you?
- 29
Which conversation are we putting off as a family?
- 30
How do you want us to remember you?
- 31
What was a decision of your parents that you understand better today?
- 32
Which wish did you never say out loud because it did not fit the family?
- 33
What makes this family special without us saying it?
- 34
What is your favourite memory of a meal with us?
- 35
Which family story gets told at every gathering, and is it even true?
- 36
When did you feel especially loved in our family?
- 37
What do you want to pass on to your children differently from how it was passed on to you?
- 38
What was a difficult year, and what held us together as a family?
- 39
What do you wish from me for the coming years?
- 40
What do you want to tell me while we still have time for it?