Deep questions to ask your parents

Most people know their parents as parents, not as people. These ask about the life they had before you existed, the decisions they'd revisit, and what frightened them while they were raising you.

20 deep questions to ask your parents

The big questions worth sitting with. Showing 12 of 20.

• What three hours of your life would you relive exactly as they happened?
• What's the first thing you'd look for in a box of everything you've ever lost?
• What question would you ask at the pearly gates?
• What one thing about your future would you have locked in if you could?
• What's a version of yourself you had to let go of to become who you are?
• What year of your life would you live in forever if you had to choose?
• When did you feel most like yourself?
• What did you dream about before you had kids?
• What do you wish your parents had told you earlier?
• What's something you understand now that you couldn't when you were my age?
• Who shaped who you became more than they realized?
• What do you think most people get wrong about you?

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