50 Questions to Ask Your Kids Every Year
A Beautiful Family Tradition That Preserves Childhood Memories
One of the most meaningful traditions you can start with your children is asking them the same set of questions each year.
Kids grow and change so quickly. Their answers at age four will be wildly different from their answers at age nine or fifteen. Capturing their thoughts, dreams, and little details about who they are in this moment becomes an incredible time capsule of childhood.
I recommend asking these questions once a year — maybe on a birthday, the first day of school, or the start of a new year.
Write the answers in a journal, record them on video, or even create a yearly audio recording.
One day, these simple conversations become priceless.
50 Questions to Ask Your Kids Each Year
About Their Favorites
What is your favorite food right now?
What is your favorite color?
What is your favorite book?
What is your favorite movie?
What is your favorite song?
What is your favorite thing to do outside?
What is your favorite game?
What is your favorite place to go as a family?
What is your favorite holiday?
What is your favorite dessert?
About Their Life
11. Who is your best friend?
12. What do you like most about school or homeschooling?
13. What makes you feel proud of yourself?
14. What is something new you learned this year?
15. What is something you want to get better at?
16. What makes you laugh the most?
17. What do you love doing with Mom?
18. What do you love doing with Dad?
19. What do you love doing as a family?
20. What is your favorite memory from this year?
About Their Personality
21. What makes you feel brave?
22. What makes you feel nervous?
23. What helps you when you feel sad?
24. What do you think you’re really good at?
25. What makes you feel loved?
26. What do you love about yourself?
27. What do you think kindness means?
28. What makes someone a good friend?
29. What makes you feel calm?
30. What do you dream about?
About the Future
31. What do you want to be when you grow up right now?
32. Where would you love to travel?
33. If you could learn any skill, what would it be?
34. What adventure do you want to go on?
35. What would your perfect day look like?
Just for Fun
36. What superpower would you choose?
37. If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be?
38. If you had a million dollars, what would you buy?
39. If you could build anything, what would it be?
40. What makes you feel happiest?
Reflection Questions
41. What was the best part of this year?
42. What was the hardest part of this year?
43. What made you feel proud this year?
44. What helped you grow this year?
45. What is something you want to remember from this year?
Family Love
46. What do you love most about our family?
47. What is your favorite thing we do together?
48. What is something funny that happened this year?
49. What is something you are grateful for?
50. What do you want to tell your future self?
These answers become one of the most treasured records of childhood you will ever have.
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