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Questions for your dad
13 hand-curated question banks for the topics most worth covering with your dad. About 30 questions per set, ordered from warm-up to vulnerable.
A few questions from these sets
- Dreams What's an ambition you set down once we came along — and do you remember deciding to?
- Family history What's a decision an ancestor made that changed the course of our family?
- Childhood What was your dad like — your dad, my grandpa — when you were the age I am now?
- Life lessons What's a mistake that taught you more than any success did?
- Memories What were you like before you became a father?
- The future When you picture the next ten years, what do you hope they hold?
- Values What did you most want me to learn that you could never just tell me directly?
- Work and career Who was the best boss you ever had — and what made them good?
- Deep questions What's the hardest thing you went through that you kept from us as kids?
- Fun & icebreakers Would you rather fight one bear-sized cat or a hundred cat-sized bears?
- Hard questions Were you ever proud of me in a way you never managed to say?
- To get to know deeper What's a belief you used to hold firmly that you've quietly let go of by now?
- To reconnect It feels like we got out of the habit of talking — do you remember when that set in for you?
- Dreams
28 Questions to Ask Your Dad About His Dreams
28 hand-curated questions about your dad's dreams — what he wanted to be, what he set down to provide, and the version of his life he still imagines.
- Family history
30 Questions to Ask Your Dad About Family History
30 questions to ask your dad about family history — the names, stories, and turning points that made your family, before the people who knew them are gone.
- Childhood
30 Questions to Ask Your Dad About His Childhood
30 hand-curated questions to ask your dad about his childhood — warm, specific, and ordered from easy to vulnerable. Plus how to actually use them.
- Life lessons
32 Questions to Ask Your Dad About Life Lessons
32 questions to ask your dad about the lessons life taught him — what he'd do differently, what he never said, and the advice he actually lives by.
- Memories
30 Questions to Ask Your Dad About Memories
30 hand-curated questions to ask your dad about memories — built to skip the small talk and get to the answers that actually matter.
- The future
30 Questions to Ask Your Dad About the Future Ahead
30 tender, practical questions to ask your aging dad about the years ahead, his plans, his fears, what he wants. Ordered from easy to honest, with notes.
- Values
30 Questions to Ask Your Dad About Values
Ask your dad what he believes and why - the principles he tried to pass down, where they came from, and where he changed his mind.
- Work and career
50 Questions to Ask Your Dad About Work and His Career
50 questions to ask your dad about work and career — first jobs, bosses, what being the provider meant, and what he'd tell his younger self.
- Deep questions
30 Deep Questions to Ask Your Dad
30 deep questions to ask your dad — to know the man behind the father, before the chance to ask quietly runs out.
- Fun & icebreakers
30 Fun Questions to Ask Your Dad
30 playful, dad-specific questions for real laughs on a drive or at the grill — his worst jokes, weird obsessions, and absurd would-you-rathers.
- Hard questions
30 Hard Questions to Ask Your Dad
30 hard questions to ask your dad — the conversations you've circled for years, asked with care instead of accusation, before there's no more time to ask.
- To get to know deeper
29 Questions to Get to Know Your Dad Better
29 questions to meet the present-day man your dad is now — his inner life today, what he thinks about, his friendships, and who he is off duty.
- To reconnect
26 Questions to Reconnect With Your Dad
26 low-pressure questions for reconnecting with a distant or estranged dad — the absent, providing, or silent father — without staging a confrontation.