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About Me Questions

Questions USED in the book

Every Year

  • What’s the best thing that’s happened since last year…
  • What’s the worst thing that’s happened since last year…

  

Age Five

  • If you had a pet dinosaur, what kind would it be and what would you name it?
  • If you had a magical tree that could grow any food you wanted, what would it grow?
  • What do you need an adult to help you with that you would like to do by yourself?
  • If you woke up and you were green, what would you do?
  • What makes you feel happy?
  • What makes you feel sad?
  • What are four nice things your friends would say about you?
  • What is something you might want to do as a grown-up?
  • What do you do that helps other people?
  • If you could go on an adventure, what kind would it be and where would you go?
  • What would be your superhero name and what special powers would you have?
  • If your favorite color had a smell, what would it smell like?
  • If you opened a store, what would you sell?
  • What is a TV show or video you like to watch with a grown-up?
  • If you could make one chore go away, what would it be? Why that one?
  •  How do you show someone that you love them?
  • If you were a photographer for a day, what would you take pictures of?
  • What is the best part about being five?

Age Six

  • If you could be a sound, what would it be? Why?
  • What would you like to learn how to do?
  • Which holiday do you like best? Why?
  • What makes you laugh?
  • What do you like most about Saturdays?
  • If you had to eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
  • What are four things that make you special?
  • What is the best surprise you’ve ever had? What made it special?
  • If you could have any animal for a pet, what would it be? Why?
  • What do you often forget to do?
  • What do you like best about being in your family?
  • If you could only keep one toy, which one would you choose? Why?
  • If you had to change your name, what would you like people to call you?
  • How did you meet your best friend?
  • If you could take one person with you to the moon, who would you take? Why?
  • What are looking forward to?
  •  What is the most fun activity to do with your friends?
  • What is the best part about being six?

Age Seven

  • What would be the best vacation?
  • What would you like to invent?
  • When you become a grown-up, what is the first thing you want to do?
  • If you got to choose dinner, what would you pick?
  • If you could trade places with anyone for a day. Who would it be? Why that person?
  • If everyone in your family was a different wild animal, what would they each be?
  • What four items would you grab to save if your house were on fire?
  • What job would you never want to have?
  • If you wrote a book, what would it be about?
  • What is the best smell in the world?
  • What is the hardest part about school?
  • What gives you the giggles?
  • What TV character would you love to have as your friend in real life?
  • If you were a parent for a day, what one rule would you make?
  • What is the best time you have ever had with a grown-up?
  • If you change anything about your family, what would it be? Why?
  • What will you never say to your kids that your parents have said to you?
  • What is the best part about being seven?

Age Eight

  • If you could add a room to your house, what would it be for?
  • Do you prefer crayons, markers, or colored pencils?
  • What talent do you wish you had?
  • What TV character do you admire? Why?
  • What makes you frustrated?
  • How do you calm yourself down when you are upset?
  • What do you do that makes other people smile?
  • What did you do today that made you proud?
  • If you became a teacher for a day, what class would you teach?
  • What kind of M & Ms are the best? Why?
  • If a friend were being mean to you, how would you respond?
  • What is something only you can do?
  • What is the silliest thing you’ve ever done?
  • If you were stuck in an elevator for four hours, who would you want to be stuck with you? Why?
  • If snow could fall in any flavor, which flavor would you choose?
  • What flower are you most like? Why?
  • If you had a chance to record a duet with any singer, who would it be and what song would you choose?
  • What are four things that make being eight great?

Age Nine

  • What makes someone smart?
  • What do you do well?
  • What food did you think you would not like but ended up loving?
  • What would you change about you if you could? Why?
  • Describe one of your strange dreams.
  • If you had $1000, what would you do with it?
  • What four words best describe you?
  • How are most like the person this book is for?
  • If you could learn any language, what would it be?
  • What is one memory that makes you happy?
  • What are you lucky to have?
  • If you could only watch one TV show per week for a year, what would it be?
  • If you could combine two animals to make one, what two would you combine? What would you call it?
  • What is the weirdest thing about you?
  • What do you like to do when you are in a good mood?
  • What movie do you wish were true? Why?
  • How can you be a better friend?
  • What is the best part about being nine?

Age Ten

  • What is unique (one of a kind) about you?
  • If you could go back in time, when and where would you go?
  • How do you think you make a difference?
  • What is the most important thing you learned this year?
  • What worries you most? Why?
  • What would you like to do better?
  • What are four good things in your life?
  • What do you think about when lying in bed before falling asleep?
  • What book would you recommend to a friend?
  • Whom would you most like to meet? Why?
  • If you had to give away all your belongings, to whom would you give them? Why that person?
  • What part of your day do you look forward to the most?
  • What makes you a good friend?
  • What are you saving up to buy right now?
  • What do you like to do when you are all alone?
  • What is the perfect age? Why?
  • Has life been unfair to you? If so, how?
  • What is the best part of being ten?

Age Eleven

  • What are you lucky to have?
  • Who or what gets you so angry you could scream?
  • What one possession would be hard to live without?
  • If you had to move to an island with no electricity, what would you bring to entertain you?
  • What are you afraid of? Why?
  • If a friend asked you to keep a secret that you do not feel comfortable keeping, what would you do?
  • If you won a million dollars, what would you do with it?
  • Describe your life as a headline
  • Where are you most ticklish?
  • If you could be an exchange student, where would you study and why?
  • If you had to spend your birthday with anyone other than your family, who would it be and why?
  • What place in the world would you love to travel to?
  • What vegetable are you most like? Why?
  • What are you proud to be a part of?
  • What traditions would you like to pass down to the next generation of kids?
  • Who is the funniest person you know? What makes them funny?
  • What do you wish more people knew about you?
  • What is the best part about being eleven?

Age Twelve

  • If money were no object, where would you live as an adult?
  • What would you change about your life if you could?
  • What do you do well?
  • What could you do better?
  • What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
  • What fruit are you most like? Why?
  • What are four things you could teach others?
  • What is the hardest part of your life right now?
  • What is one trait that all members of your family share?
  • What do you consider unimportant that others fret or worry over?
  • What moment do you wish was caught on camera?
  • Rearrange the letters in your first and middle names to create a new name/
  • If you could change the ending to any movie, which movie and how would you end it?
  • What do you really enjoy doing that others find boring or a chore?
  • What is one item you really should throw away but never will?
  • What brings out your competitive side?
  • What historical event do you wish you has witnessed?
  • What is the best part about being twelve?

Age Thirteen

  • What do you think people think of you on first impression?
  • What job or profession intrigues you? Why?
  • If you could have a “do-over” moment from this past year, what would it be and why?
  • What one product/invention would you take back in time a hundred years to impress and awe your ancestors?
  • If you could instantly “just know” something about everyone you meet, what would you want to know?
  • What characteristics make someone a good parent?
  • List four things you would like to accomplish in high school?
  • What would you look for in a life partner?
  • If you could back in time and ask a famous person one question, who and what would it be?
  • What gemstone are you most like? Why?
  • Describe your personality as a weather report.
  • What are you ashamed of?
  • What three topics could you easily give lectures on?
  • What one product or service would you be an enthusiastic spokesperson for?
  • If you could be a professional artist, what would be the theme of your work?
  • What do you think is the most beautiful human-made object in the world?
  • If you could change the ending to any book, which book and how would you end it?
  • What is the best part about being thirteen?

Age Fourteen

  • What one thing should have gotten you into trouble but did not? Why not?
  • Describe the perfect day for you.
  • If you could rewind your life for a day, to what day would you go back and why?
  • What tree are you most like? Why?
  • If you could set one rule for this family to follow, what would it be?
  • What is the best invention, and what do you like about it?
  • When do you think someone becomes an adult?
  • What are four good things in your life?
  • Of all the things you are learning, what do you think will be most useful as an adult?
  • What has had the greatest impact on your life, good or bad, and why?
  • What is the hardest part about being fourteen?
  • What is one bad habit you wish you could break?
  • What is one mistake you have made that you would like to go back and change?
  • If you could have one item delivered to your doorstep every day, what would it be?
  • If you could fast-forward your life to a specific time, what would it be and why?
  • What is the best decision you have ever made?
  • What is the dumbest thing you’ve ever done?
  • What are not looking forward to about getting older?
  • If you made enough money that you never had to work again, what would you do with your time?
  • If you could take a road trip with a good friend, where would you go?
  • Are you a leader or a follower? What makes you say that?
  • What is the best one hundred dollars you have ever spent?
  • If you could bring one thing back that was either lost or destroyed, what would it be?
  • If you were granted three wishes, what would they be?
  • What is the best part about being fourteen?

Age Fifteen

  • If you had a personalized license plate, what would it say?
  • What do you most want to accomplish by the time you are forty?
  • What would you like a psychic to predict?
  • What is the most courageous thing you have ever done?
  • What has fear kept you from doing?
  • What is the best surprise you have ever received or been a part of? 
  • Name four people (not family), living or dead, that you would invite to an intimate dinner.
  • What is the hardest thing you have ever done?
  • If you could give everyone in the world a gift, but it had to be the same gift, what would that gift be?
  • What in your life is dangerous?
  • If you could travel back in time two years, what advice would you give yourself?
  • What would you most like to learn over the next few years?
  • What do you like best about yourself?
  • If a movie was made about your life, who would you want to play you?
  • What animal are you most like? Why?
  • What do appreciate most?
  • What makes someone successful?
  • What do you think is the most important quality of living a great life?
  • If you could be famous, what would you choose to be famous for?
  • If you were told you could live forever, what would you change about your life now?
  • Where do you feel most comfortable?
  • If you could have fifty pounds of anything, other than money, what would you want?
  • How have you turned a challenge into an opportunity?
  • If you could relive one moment of your life, which would it be and why?
  • What is the best part about being fifteen?

Age Sixteen

  • How would you want to be described by others?
  • What car are you most like? Why?
  • Whom do you admire, and what makes that person worthy of admiration?
  • What do you most appreciate about your friends?
  • If you had the opportunity to interview any one person – for an hour – who would it be and why?
  • How do you make a difference?
  • Name four movies you can watch over and over.
  • What do you think is worth spending time on?
  • What would be a good nickname for you (other than any you might already have)?
  • What do you see when you picture your future?
  • If you could live the story from one of your books, which would it be?
  • What would be difficult to give up?
  • What is the hardest thing you have ever done?
  • What would you change in the world if you could?
  • Where is a good hiding place?
  • If you could work at a theme park, what character would you dress up as and why?
  • What makes you likeable?
  • What one future event would you really like to know the outcome of now?
  • What do you take more seriously than anyone else?
  • What do you believe that others might not?
  • With what TV character would you most like to switch places? Why?
  • What topic do you find the most boring?
  • What is the greatest success story you have heard or read about?
  • What is the best part about being sixteen?

Age Seventeen

  • Where is the best place for you to do your thinking?
  • What do you like most about you?
  • What is a motto you live by?
  • What was once important but now is not?
  • When you look into the mirror, what do you see?
  • What comes very easily to you?
  • What are four things you would like to accomplish in your twenties?
  • What do you find funny?
  • What makes you unique?
  • Name three things that, if you could change today, would completely alter your life.
  • Who has been your mentor? How so?
  • If you were forced to live on another continent, which would you choose and why?
  • What one word would you like to pop into people’s heads when your name is mentioned?
  • What aggravates you the most about your family?
  • Define courage.
  • Who has impressed you, and how?
  • If you were president of the USA, what one law would you enact?
  • What would be the name of your own website?
  • If you had instant knowledge about any one subject, what subject would you choose?
  • What is the biggest barrier to accomplishing what you want?
  • What is one vacation spot other people think is fabulous but that you have no desire to visit?
  • If you could come up with one question to ask the American Public in a poll, what would it be?
  • How do you like to be acknowledged?
  • What is the last thing that made you laugh so hard you cried?
  • What is the best part about being seventeen?

Age Eighteen

  • What gives you the most joy?
  • How would the world be different if you had never been born?
  • What would a stranger be most surprised to know about you?
  • How much money is too much?
  • What are you passionate about?
  • What is your biggest challenge right now?
  • If you could read the minds of four people, who would you choose?
  • Who would you want to represent you if you were unable to attend an important event? Why?
  • Describe loyalty.
  • What is the best conversation piece that you own?
  • What is your biggest pet peeve?
  • What was the worst consequence while growing up?
  • What characteristic do you possess that gets you in the most trouble?
  • What is important to you now that you never thought would be?
  • What is one thing you have not done that you think everyone else has?
  • How have you amazed yourself?
  • What will you never say to your kids?
  • Describe your life as a headline.
  • What is the stupidest thing you have ever done?
  • What one subject is always a conversation stopper? Why?
  • What one moment of glory have you watched someone else celebrate that you’d love to experience too?
  • Imagine that you only see in black and white. What one other color would you add to your palette?
  • What is considered a modern-day convenience that you consider a pain in the neck?
  • What is the best part about being eighteen?

Age Nineteen

  • What did you forget once that you will likely never forget again?
  • What do you find impressive?
  • Describe your future in a book title.
  • What makes someone worthy of respect?
  • What do you remember most fondly of your childhood?
  • How would you most like to be remembered?
  • If forced to live a whole year by yourself, where would it be and what three items would you bring with you?
  • Envision your life partner…
  • What makes you trustworthy?
  • What do you find difficult?
  • What did you think was horrible at the time, but turned out pretty good?
  • Where can you find freedom?
  • What does your heart most desire right now? 
  • What makes something worth your time?
  • What did you previously enjoy doing that now has lost your interest?
  • What makes something valuable?
  • What world record would you personally like to establish?
  • What have you overcome in order to be a better person? Why?
  • What would you do with an extra hour every day?
  • If you could have the answer to a question that has always troubled you, what question would it be?
  • If you could memorize a book from cover to cover, which book would you choose?
  • What have you said to another person that you wish you could take back?
  • What have you sacrificed for the benefit of someone else?
  • What one experience has most shaped your life thus far?
  • What is the best part of being nineteen?

About You Questions (NOT USED in the book)

  • What was your favorite thing about your childhood home?
  • What do you like the most about yourself?
  • How are you talented?
  • What’s your hidden talent?
  • What is a skill or talent that you would like to learn?
  • What do you like to do when you feel stressed?
  • When someone is feeling stressed, what are 3 suggestions you’d share with them on how to feel less stressed? 
  • Where would be a great place for a vacation? Why?
  • What is your ideal vacation spot?
  • What is one vacation location that other people think is fabulous that you have no desire to visit?
  • Would you time travel if you could control when & where? If you couldn’t?
  • What event in history would you observe if you could go back in time?
  • What do you like to do when you feel sad?
  • Name five awesome things about you.
  • What five words best describe you?
  • What are five words your friends would use to describe you? 
  • What are five words your teachers would use to describe you?
  • What characteristic of yours would you like to carry with you forever? Why?
  • What is your most likeable quality?
  • What gives you thrills? 
  • What always brings a smile to your face?
  • What do you like to do when you’re happy?
  • What gets you out of a bad mood?
  • What makes you angry?
  • Are you a morning, afternoon or night person?
  • What amazes you most about your life?
  • What in your life most excites you?
  • Do you remember your dreams?
  • Do you dream in color?
  • What is your dream car?
  • What is the best dream you’ve ever had?
  • What did you dream about last night?
  • What do you think you are going to dream about tonight?
  • What does your dream lunch at school look like?
  • What do you like daydreaming about?
  • What’s your favorite activity to kill time?
  • What is the most exciting event you ever witnessed?
  • What do you take more seriously than anyone else?
  • How have you been blessed?
  • How have you been lucky?
  • What piques your interest?
  • What is the most interesting course you’ve ever taken?
  • What does the opposite sex have that gives them the advantage?
  • What part of your body do you not like touched?
  • What’s one New Year’s resolution you kept for the entire year?
  • What’s the longest line you’ve ever waited in?
  • What trips you up every time?
  • What would make you happier?
  • What immediately brings you out of the doldrums?
  • What is a “must have” in your life?
  • What celebrity would you most like to meet?  Why?
  • Would your life hold up to media/public scrutiny?
  • What is out there in cyber world that would embarrass you today if it found its way to youtube?
  • Name your top five favorite movies
  • What talk show would you like to be on?
  • What magazine would you like to be editor of?
  • What is the most money you’ve ever found lying around in a public place?
  • Do you believe money can or can’t buy happiness? 
  • What is the one job they could never pay you enough to do?
  • Can you think of some words that you like the sound of?
  • What animal would you absolutely have to see on an African Safari?
  • On a scale of one to ten, ten being very, how superstitious are you?
  • What type of service or good deed do you find most rewarding?
  • What do you find most rewarding?
  • Describe the house you want to live in when you are an adult.
  • Do you think it’s better to have one great skill you’re an A+ at or many skills you’re a C at and why? 
  • Think of the worst thing that’s happened to you…what did you learn from it? 
  • What is the best thing that’s ever happened to you?
  • Was there a moment when you felt confused about something?
  • What are 3 things you are grateful for in your life, and why? 
  • What are some of your goals and how do you plan to reach them?
  • What are you most thankful for?
  • What are your favorite things to do right before bed?
  • What book do you like the least?
  • What book do you like the most?
  • What author would you most like to meet?
  • What was your favorite book when you were little?
  • What book has caused you to rethink your life?
  • What did someone else do for you that was helpful?
  • What do you do when you can’t sleep at night? 
  • What do you think is keeping you from complete happiness? 
  • What do you think is the easiest job in the world? Why?
  • What do you want to dress up as for Halloween?
  • What food do you think is the most fun to eat?
  • What is a strange food combination that you like?
  • What’s your least favorite food of all time?
  • What is the most disgusting food you’ve ever tried?
  • What’s the funniest food combination you can think of?
  • What friend makes you smile?
  • What’s your favorite thing about your best friend?
  • Which of your friends do you think I would like most? Why? 
  • Which cartoon character would you love to be your friend in real life?
  • What have you learned in life that you feel will be the most useful? 
  • What is a rule that you would like to break?
  • What is an animal that you wish would go extinct?
  • What is the best part of your day?
  • What is the best toy ever?
  • What is the bravest thing you have ever done?
  • What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
  • What is the funniest movie you have ever seen?
  • What is the funniest thing you ever did?
  • What is the funniest joke you can think of?
  • What is the most important lesson you have learned in your life and from whom did you learn it?
  • What is the silliest sound you can make?
  • What is the silliest thing you can think of?
  • What is the strangest thing that grown-ups do?
  • What pizza topping would you never try?
  • What product would you stockpile if you found out it wasn’t going to be sold anymore? 
  • What smells do you hate?
  • What vegetable do you like least?
  • What was something funny you learned today?
  • What was something kind you did today?
  • What was the best school trip you ever went on?
  • What was the worst nightmare you ever had?
  • What was your favorite part of the day?
  • What’s a hobby that you don’t currently have that you’d love to learn? What’s holding you back? 
  • What’s your favorite candy of all time?
  • When do you feel a child or teen becomes an adult? 
  • When was the last time you made someone smile?
  • Where is the best place to hide in hide and seek
  • Where is your favorite hiding spot when you play hide and seek?
  • Where would you want to move – anywhere on the Earth.
  • Where’s your favorite place to go?
  • Which pizza topping will you never try?
  • Who has the stinkiest feet that you know?
  • Who is the smartest person you know?
  • Name someone from the past you would like to meet and why.
  • What is your best childhood memory?
  • What made your first kiss memorable?
  • What was your favorite thing to pretend as a child?
  • What was your hardest question this year? 
  • What has been the best moment in your life thus far?
  • What is something you’d like to accomplish by the time you’re 40?
  • What is something you’d like to see happen in 20XX?
  • What do you want 20XX to be like?
  • What do you want to be in 10 years? 
  • What is something you’d like a psychic to predict?
  • Whom would you most like to meet and why?
  • What would you most like to learn?
  • List 5 things you’d like to do before you die…
  • What event or activity are you most looking forward to in the next few months?et a taste of what healthy eating looks like with these sample meal plans. Each plan includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack ideas for a full day of healthy eating.

Change/Challenge/Impact/Accomplishments (NOT USED in the book)

  • What would you do differently if you could do Grammar School/Junior High/High School/College over again?
  • How do you think your life would have been different if you had been born the opposite sex?
  • What do you find challenging?
  • Who have you personally witnessed overcoming challenges to become successful?
  • What is the hardest thing about being a girl/guy?
  • What do you feel is the hardest job in the world and why? 
  • What is something you forgot once that you will more than likely never forget again?
  • What do you most regret and why?
  • Have you passed up on any chances that you now regret? What were they? 
  • What keeps you from being the person you want to be?
  • When has your ego gotten in the way?
  • What are you most tired of? Why?
  • What’s easy to complain about?
  • What frustrates you?
  • What makes you cry?
  • Did you ever cheat in school? When?
  • Have you ever stolen money?
  • What is your most valuable possession?
  • When you feel sad or lonely, what makes you feel better?
  • What do you do best?
  • What is your best trait? Why?
  • What is your best feature?
  • What is the best part about this family?
  • What is the best part of being a male/female?
  • What’s been the best part of your life so far? Why?
  • What is the best lesson you ever learned?
  • What is the best advice you’ve ever given?
  • What has been your greatest accomplishment thus far? 
  • Name the top three people you would rank as the greatest Americans
  • What’s your greatest strength and your greatest weakness? 
  • If we experience our greatest moments of growth and learning from failure, why are we so afraid to fail? 
  • What do you expect to accomplish in your 20’s?
  • What is something that your Mom/Dad has accomplished that you would also like to accomplish?
  • What is the best $100 you’ve ever spent?
  • What do you wish you invented?
  • What is the achievement you’re most proud of and why? 
  • Who would you say has been most influential in your life? Why?
  • What is something you are proud to be a part of?
  • When has pride helped you?
  • Name three things you’re especially proud of…
  • Who have you helped?
  • What would you want on your epitaph?
  • What gives you courage?
  • How have you surprised yourself?
  • What is one piece of advice that you wish you could pass along to everyone else?
  • Who has had a significant impact on your life thus far?
  • How has your parents’ divorce(s) positively (negatively) impacted you?
  • What’s one thing you did in the last 24 hours to make someone’s life better? 
  • What can you do to make the world a better place?
  • Who depends on you?
  • Define achievement
  • Define trust
  • Describe a “full life”
  • Describe your life as a song title…
  • Describe the perfect day for you…
  • Describe your life as a headline…
  • Describe your personality as that of a farm animal
  • Describe yourself in 5 words or less. 
  • What color most describes your personality? Why?
  • What kind of transportation describes your personality? Why?
  • What does it mean to be trusted?
  • What does it mean to love someone?
  • What does it mean to be respected?
  • What personality trait defines you?
  • What is your most likeable quality?
  • What makes you likeable?

If You... (NOT USED in the book)

  • If you had a whole day to do anything you wanted, what would you want to do and why?
  • If you could spend the whole day with one person, who would you spend it with?
  • If you could have any object or place to yourself for one day, what would you choose?
  • If you could repeat a day, which would it be and why?
  • If you had a time machine, what period of time would you visit? Why?
  • If you could rewind your life to a certain time and relive those years, what day would be the starting point and why?
  • If you could fast forward your life to any time, when would it be and why?
  • If you could do anything or go anywhere tomorrow, what would you do?
  • If you could go back in time or go forward, which would you do?
  • If you could change your bedtime, what time would you make it?
  • If you could stay any age for the rest of your life, what age would it be? Why?
  • If you could be part of a circus act, which one would it be and why?
  • If you had the ability to compete in any Olympic event, which one would you choose?
  • If you could design any ride or attraction at Disney, what would it be?
  • If you could be part of the Disney theme park, what character would you dress up as? Why?
  • If you could be on a tv show, which one would it be and what character would you play? 
  • If you could bring to life a character from a movie, whom would you choose?
  • If you could have a famous person’s voice as your own, whose would it be?
  • If you could switch places with someone for a year, who would it be and why? 
  • If you could switch places with any teacher in your school, who would it be?
  • If your life was a web page, what would it be called?
  • If you could have been named anything else, what name would you have wanted?
  • If your name was given as the description for any word in the dictionary, behind what word would people find your name?
  • If you were a number instead of a name, what number would you be?
  • If you had to spend a holiday with someone other than your family, who would it be and why?
  • If you had only one wish, what would it be and why? 
  • If you had $10,000, what would you do with it?
  • If you were forced to live somewhere for the rest of your life, where would it be and why?
  • If you were forced to live in another country for a year, which one would you choose and why?
  • If you could live in any residence for a month, where?
  • If you got to live in outer space, what planet would you live on?
  • If you were stuck on a deserted island for five years, what 4 people (not related to you) would you want with you? Why?
  • If you were stranded on a deserted island for a year, what three things would you want with you?
  • If you could change only one thing about the presidential election process, what would it be?
  • If you’re the President and need to have 3 people to assist you. Who would you pick and why? 
  • If you could bring back one deceased superstar for one final performance, whom would you choose?
  • If you could hear a speech from any leading figure in any field, whom would you choose to hear?
  • If you were given the opportunity to be an apprentice to any person, living or dead, from who would you learn?
  • If you lived on a farm, what would be your least favorite chore? 
  • If you lived on a farm, what would be your favorite chore?
  • If you could be any animal, which one would you choose and why?
  • If you could have any animal as a pet, what would you choose?
  • If animals could talk, what animal would you like to talk to?
  • If you could invent a new animal, what would it be like?
  • If you could be an animal for a day, what would you choose?
  • If you could speak to animals, what do you think they would say?
  • If you were to get a new dog, what would you name them?
  • If, in a special week, you could experience a different job every day, name them M, T, W, R, F
  • If you could enter a horse in the Kentucky Derby, what would you name your horse?
  • If you opened your own retail store, what type of merchandise would you sell?
  • If you were required to wear a hat at all times, what sort of hat would you wear?
  • If you were blind/deaf but could see/hear for one hour per month, how would you spend that time?
  • If you had to wear a button with a maximum of six words describing your life outlook, what would it say?
  • If you could have the original of anything in the world, what would it be?
  • If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? 
  • If you could make one rule that everyone in the world had to follow, what would it be? 
  • If you could get rid of anything in the world, what would it be?
  • If you could experience something dangerous (safety guaranteed) what would it be?
  • If your life until now were flashing before your eyes, what three moments would you expect to stand out?
  • If you could un-invent any past invention, which would you choose?
  • If you had to be a different ethnicity than you are now, to which heritage would you most like to belong?
  • If you could have only one superpower, what would it be? 
  • If we lost everything, we owned today but could keep 3 things, what would you pick and why? 
  • If you could eat dinner with 3 people you don’t know, who would it be and where would you go? 
  • If you could be any desert, what would you be?
  • If you had to choose to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
  • If you could only watch one show/movie for the rest of your life, what would it be?
  • If you could spend the day with any cartoon character, who would it be?
  • If you could become any cartoon character for one day, who would you be?
  • If you could ride any dinosaur, what would it be?
  • If you were a book/movie, what would your title be?
  • If you could live the story in one of your books, which would it be and why?
  • If you decided to write a book, what would it be about? Why?
  • If you could give your teacher a nickname, what would it be?
  • If you were the teacher, what would you teach the class?
  • If you were a teacher and could teach your students anything at all, what would you teach them?
  • If you could meet any dinosaur, which kind would you pick?
  • If you had no physical, financial or other obstacles, what skill would you like to have? 
  • If you could choose a new name for yourself, what would you choose?
  • If you could be a grown up for one day, what would you do?
  • If I told you that you could eat candy for an entire day, do you think you could do it?
  • If you can be anything in the world, what would you be?
  • If you could choose anyone to sit next to in class, who would it be?
  • If you could create a new planet, what would it look like?
  • If you could have a secret clubhouse, what would you do there?
  • If you could paint the house, what color would you paint it?
  • If you could take anyone to the moon, who would you take?
  • If you decided to collect something, what would it be? Why?
  • If you have a YouTube channel, what would it be called?
  • If you wanted to make me smile or laugh, what would you do?
  • If you were a pirate, what treasure would you seek?
  • If you were a pirate, what would your name be?
  • If you were invisible, what would you do?
  • If you were opening a restaurant, what kind of restaurant would it be?
  • If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?
  • If your pet could talk, what would they say?
  • If your toys came to life, what would they do?

Parents/Parenting/People/Relationships (NOT USED in the book)

  • How are you liking your dad?
  • How are you like you mom?
  • What is something you’ll never say to your kids that your mom/dad has said to you?
  • Describe the best time you ever had with your mom/grandma/aunt…
  • Describe the best time you’ve ever had with your dad/grandpa/uncle…
  • What would you change about your mom if you could?
  • What would you change about your dad if you could?
  • What would you change about your relationship with your parents if you could?
  • What do you like most/least about your dad?
  • What do you like most/least about your mom?
  • What could your mom have done better as a mother?
  • What could your dad have done better as a father?
  • What barriers have your parents overcome to make them better parents?
  • What is one thing that your dad does that you want to continue when you’re a parent?
  • What is one thing that your mom does that you want to continue when you’re a parent?
  • What life lesson will you share with your children?
  • What’s one thing your dad’s/Mom’s accomplished that you’d like to accomplish as well?
  • What is one thing you wish your dad/Mom did differently as a parent?
  • Describe your relationship with your parents
  • What makes your mom a good parent?
  • What makes your dad a good parent?
  • What aspect of your character will make you a good parent?
  • If you couldn’t have kids naturally, would you adopt?
  • Could you be a stepparent?
  • How have your stepparents enriched your life?
  • What incident do you worry about having to reveal to your children when they’re old enough to ask?
  • How did your parents demonstrate their love for you?
  • What was the worst punishment growing up?
  • Why does talking about your parents’ deaths make you uncomfortable?
  • Describe the ideal partner for you…
  • What is one characteristic that you possess that you want mirrored in a life partner?
  • Describe the perfect date…
  • What is a deal breaker in a relationship for you?
  • What does love look like to you?
  • How would you explain the word “love” to someone without using the word “love?” 
  • What constitutes a good marriage/relationship?
  • What do you like most about your brother?
  • What do you like most about your sister?
  • Who knows the most about you?
  • Who is the most famous person you’ve ever met?
  • Could you be a politician’s spouse?
  • What makes you a great catch?
  • Who is your hero?
  • What aspect of marriage has surprised you the most?
  • Which of you has the most common sense?
  • Which of you is the first to apologize?
  • What is one thing you’d change about your wedding day if you could?
  • What has been easier as a couple than as individuals?
  • What characteristic of your spouse makes you crazy?
  • What characteristic/trait would you like your kids not to inherit?
  • What makes you happiest about your chosen career?
  • What advice would you give your younger self?

Faith (NOT USED in the book)

  • How has God answered your prayers?
  • How has your belief in God made a difference in your life?
  • How do you demonstrate your faith in God?
  • What do you think God wants of you?
  • What is the difference between religion and faith?
  • How do you align with God?
  • Where do you find God?
  • Where is God?
  • Do you pray?
  • Where is your favorite place to converse with God?
  • Name a time when you thought God hadn’t answered your prayers, but later found out he answered in a way other than how you originally wanted
  • Is God real?

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