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Questions for your son
9 hand-curated question banks for the topics most worth covering with your son. About 30 questions per set, ordered from warm-up to vulnerable.
A few questions from these sets
- Childhood What did you understand about our family that you never said?
- Life lessons What's something you believe that you know I'd disagree with?
- Memories What's something I did when you were small that you're only now old enough to find funny?
- The future What are you quietly afraid the future might not have room for?
- Values When have you stood up for someone, even when it cost you something?
- Work and career What counts as a mistake in your field that only somebody inside it would recognise as one?
- Deep questions What's a worry you carry that you've decided not to bother me with?
- Hard questions Have I ever made you feel like a disappointment? When?
- Hypotheticals If aliens landed and picked one person from this family to explain humanity to them, who are they picking and why?
- Childhood
30 Questions to Ask Your Son About His Childhood
30 tender questions a parent can ask their son about his childhood — what he remembers, what shaped him, what you never thought to ask while it was happening.
- Life lessons
30 Questions to Ask Your Son About Life Lessons
30 questions to ask your son about life lessons — what he's figuring out for himself, what he's learning the hard way, and what he wishes you'd understood.
- Memories
30 Questions to Ask Your Son About Shared Memories
30 warm, specific questions to ask your son about the memories you share and the ones he kept on his own. Ordered from easy to tender, with notes.
- The future
30 Questions to Ask Your Son About the Future
Thirty curious, non-steering questions to ask your son about the future, the life he's building, and what he wants from you while he builds it.
- Values
30 Questions to Ask Your Son About His Values
30 questions to ask your son about his values — what he believes, what he stands up for, and who he's becoming as the boy you raised turns into his own man.
- Work and career
50 Questions to Ask Your Son About Work and His Career
50 questions to ask your son about work — for a parent who can no longer judge the field, the money, or the man his colleagues get all week.
- Deep questions
30 Deep Questions to Ask Your Son
Thirty deep questions a parent can ask a son, from teen to adult, that respect his autonomy and let him be seen as a person.
- Hard questions
30 Hard Questions to Ask Your Son
30 hard questions to ask your son — the conversations parents tend to avoid, asked carefully and without judgement, so the door stays open instead of closing.
- Hypotheticals
50 Hypothetical Questions to Ask Your Son
50 hypothetical questions to ask your son — what-ifs that get a straight answer out of a boy, or a grown man, who edits everything else for you.