What are good questions to ask my daughter?

Ask what she remembers about home, what she needed from you that she did not get, what she is proudest of, and what she wants her life to look like in ten years.

At what age does this work?

From about six with a parent writing the answers down, and at any age after that.

How do we keep the answers?

Go Family Story keeps her written answers, photos and voice recordings in one private archive you control.

Questions to ask your daughter

Families record the grandparents and forget the children. These questions catch who your daughter is right now, and what she remembers of the home you made.

Questions to ask your daughter about her own life

Ask a few at a time. Grown daughters often write far more than they would ever say out loud.

1.What did you learn about being a woman by watching the women in our family?
2.When did you first feel grown up, and what made you feel it?
3.What did you want to be before anyone told you what was sensible?
4.What was the world like then — what was everyone talking about?
5.What did our house teach you about how to treat people?
6.What did friendship look like for you at fifteen?
7.What was the first thing you ever bought with your own money?
8.What has kept you together?
9.What did leaving home actually feel like?
10.What has surprised you most about your own adult life?
11.What do you carry from our family that you want to keep?
12.Who did you learn the most from at work?
13.What are you proudest of that has nothing to do with work?
14.What do you find hardest to say out loud?
15.What kind of love do you believe in?
16.Who helped you through it?
17.What do you want your own life to feel like in ten years?
18.What is your very first memory?
19.What did our home feel like to you when you were small?
20.Where in the world have you felt most at peace?
21.What did you dread?
22.What did you think about at bedtime as a child?
23.Who was your best friend, and what were they like?
24.What do you believe about how people should treat each other?
25.What was school actually like for you?
26.What were you good at that nobody praised?
27.What was the hardest year of growing up?
28.What do you hope we remember on a hard day?
29.When did you feel most alone?
30.What do you remember about our family holidays?
31.What tradition of ours meant something to you?
32.Which friendship shaped you most?
33.When did you start feeling like an adult?
34.What are you most proud of in your own life?
35.What are you working towards now?
36.What is the longest journey you have taken?
37.Who are the people who matter most to you today?
38.What do you want out of the next ten years?
39.What do you hope your own children know about you?
40.What has made you feel invisible?
41.What should our family keep doing?
42.What was our home like from where you were standing?
43.What did you love about being small?
44.What do you do every year without fail?
45.What frightened you as a child that we never knew about?

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Questions to answer about your daughter

Write down what you have watched happen — the parts of her childhood she cannot remember herself.

46.What is she like as a small girl?
47.What does she insist on doing by herself?
48.What did she care about long before anyone encouraged it?
49.What have they rebuilt?
50.What did she look like when she was concentrating?
51.What is she like with her friends?
52.What did she find hard about growing up?
53.What do they read, watch or follow?
54.When does she stop being a child, in your eyes?
55.What does she teach you about yourself?
56.What does she stand up for, even when it cost her?
57.What have they teach an adult?
58.What does she do that is unmistakably her?
59.What is she better at than anyone in the family?
60.What does she worry about that she should not?
61.What would make their year?
62.What make you proudest of her?
63.What does she forgive you for?
64.What does she need that she never asks for?
65.What has knowing them changed in you?

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What are good questions to ask my daughter?: Ask what she remembers about home, what she needed from you that she did not get, what she is proudest of, and what she wants her life to look like in ten years.
At what age does this work?: From about six with a parent writing the answers down, and at any age after that.
How do we keep the answers?: Go Family Story keeps her written answers, photos and voice recordings in one private archive you control.