Questions for Families
Get to know your family better with these questions. Learn more about your siblings and parents, or even grandparents and discover gems about your family history!
- What do you think would shock the younger you most about the older you?
- What rule did you argue over most with your parents?
- What is your best trivia category?
- What is one thing you’re good at that people don’t expect?
- What is the smallest thing for which you are grateful?
- If you could magically make one food or habit healthy, what would you choose?
- How has your opinion of your family changed over the years?
- What do you respect most about your best friend?
- What do you think you do better than 90% of people?
- What was most different about your life one year ago?
- What do you get the most compliments about?
- What is the closest thing your nuclear family has to a shared hobby?
- What is the dumbest way you injured yourself?
- What is a childhood habit or preference that you’ll never outgrow?
- My most nostalgic meal is _________.
- What is one childhood memory that you remember especially well?
- What do you think your family’s funniest story about you is?
- Ideally, how would you spend your birthday?
- What makes you proud of your family?
- What is your favorite emotional attribute you inherited from your parents?
- Do you online shop more or less than your peers?
- If you had to choose the exact location of your forever home today where would it be?
- If you could develop any one athletic skill overnight what would it be?
- What is something you’ve done / felt / seen / etc that you wish you could experience again for the first time?
- What is the luckiest thing that has happened to you? What is the unluckiest thing that has happened to you?
- What is one thing that instantly makes your day better?
- What did you learn about marriage from your parents?
- What’s the biggest difference between you and your family?
- What’s one thing you want to do or wish you’d done before having children?
- Have you ever caught yourself repeating something you parents said to you?
- What’s your favorite family tradition?
- In three words how would you describe your childhood?
- What family member, outside of your immediate family, impacted you the most?
- What one value defines your family the most?
- What do you regret not sticking to or starting when you were younger?
- How are you the most similar to your parents when it comes to health? How are you the most different from your parents?
- Does your family have a certain culture / set of shared values around health? If so, what are they?
- What are you really good at but embarrassed to be good at?
- How hard on yourself are you about body image?
- Would you rather speak every language or be able to play every instrument?
- Do you think you are an above or below average singer?
- What kind of elderly person do you hope to be?
- What is something you never get sick of (i.e. movies, music, etc)?
- What was your favorite age growing up?
- Who was the best teacher you ever had?
- If you had to eat at one restaurant for the rest of your life which would it be?
- What physical traits do you share with your relatives?
- What did you do as a teenager that makes you cringe now?
- If you had to show your kids only one picture of you “growing up,” which would you show them?
- How long do you think you could survive in a remote forest with no tools?
- What is the worst haircut you’ve ever had?
- How many hours do you get to the airport before a flight?
- What does self-care look like for you?
- What is on your bucket list?
- If you could outsource any one aspect of your life today at no cost what would you choose?
- What is the hardest you’ve laughed recently?
- Who has intimidated you the most in life?
- What habit / routine are you most ashamed of? (Be honest)
- If you were limited to only six groomsmen / bridesmaids who would they be?
- What sized group are you most at ease in?
- Do you think you would have been better situated as a different number sibling in your family (e.g. if you’re the oldest, do you think you would’ve been better off as the youngest, etc)?
- How did birth order affect your family’s dynamic?
- What is your favorite story about your grandparents?
- What is one quiet dream you’ve tucked away?
- What is your love language?
- What were the longest five minutes you’ve ever experienced?
- What is something you’ve done that you recommend everyone do before they die?
- Who would you prefer to set you up on a blind date: friends, family members, coworkers, professional dating services, or random strangers?
- What was your last big rejection?
- If you had to start a family business, what would it be?
- Guess the last three things mom or dad googled.
- Who is the best driver in the family?
- Guess the last three things your partner googled.
- What are your goals for the week?
- What criticism of you has stuck with you the most?
- What is one way you helped another person today?
- What is your favorite household chore? What is your least favorite?
- Have you ever been told that you have a doppelgänger? If so, who is it?
- What do you hope people would highlight about you at your funeral?
- What’s your favorite memory of your mom and dad?
- Whose marriage do you consider to be a model marriage and why?
- How many children would you like to have or would have wanted?
- Are you closer to your father or your mother?
- What’s the thing you most hope to replicate from your own upbringing?
- How important are your siblings to you?
- What’s one thing you would change about your father or mother?
- What’s one thing you miss most about your father or mother?
- Would you ever have a home birth?
- What do you love the most about my parents?
- What do you hate the most about my parents?
- What’s the most important value you’d teach your children?
- Do you have a relative you’ve lost touch with that you miss?
- How are you different from your mom and dad?
- Who’s the black sheep in your family and why?
- Is there a habit or behavior you try not to emulate from your parents or siblings?
- Would you give your child more or less freedom than you had growing up?
- What three qualities would you most like to raise your children to embody?
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