Family trust is super important for us. As a family, we’re always checking in with one another and these 50 family questions help explore a wide variety of topics we wouldn’t often think to chat about. Use this list as conversation topics for kids who aren’t as talkative or dinner table questions with the extended family.
Family Questions to Inspire Love
I encourage readers to visit the Responsibility.org site for conversation starters, family questions, and resources to help parents raise kids who choose quality friendships and have the confidence to lead when necessary. They’re sponsoring this post, but I use their website for good parenting tips very often. Below are our overarching parenting goals to inspire family trust, teamwork and a squad mentality.
Family Questions to Inspire Trust
This list of table top topics would be perfect as dinner table questions, not just to learn more about the people in your family now… but even about past family stories too. Or you can even make a game out of these family questions! Think of this as a list of Family Feud game questions that can be as silly or random as you want. Just be inspired to connect, communicate and build trust within your family relationships through honest, open dialogue.
1. Is your voice/opinion heard in family matters?
2. In what ways do your parents show they trust you?
3. How does someone make the right choice under peer pressure?
4. What is your name story? Who were you named after?
5. What do you and your friends like to do together?
6. What is your favorite thing to do as a family?
7. What would make you happy right this very moment?
8. What would make you happy in the future?
9. If you were offered an opportunity to live abroad, would you consider it?
10. How do you like to spend your free time?
11. What are some of your fondest memories of the day? Month? Year?
12. Should people follow the religion of their parents, or should they have the liberty to choose another?
13. Have you ever seen your mom and/or dad cry? How did you feel?
14. Should kids help with household chores?
15. Do you clean your own room? Do you do your own laundry?
16. What should every parent teach their kids how to do?
17. Who do you look most like?
18. What language would you learn if you could learn any language in the world?
19. Do you feel pressured by your us (parents) to act a certain way?
20. What is most important: following the dreams your parents want for you or following your own dreams?
Conversation Topics for Kids
Fun Questions to Ask Your Family
21. What do you love most about yourself?
22. What do you love most about your siblings? Your parents?
23. If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be?
24. Would you fly or be invisible? Why?
25. What is the best job in the world?
26. Would you rather travel to outer space or the bottom of the ocean?
27. What is the best gift you’ve ever received?
28. What the best gift you’ve ever given?
29. What’s your least favorite thing to do?
30. What is your favorite meal?
31. What makes you most proud to be in our family?
32. Are your parents strict?
33. How do you describe our family culture/values?
34. If you could grow up anywhere in the world, where would that be?
35. If you could live anywhere in the world for one year, where would that be?
36. How would you spend $100?
37. What’s one rule or law you would change?
38. If you were a teacher, what grade would you want to teach?
39. What’s one parenting tip you would give your mom and dad?
40. What is one word to describe your family? Two words? Three words?
Dinner Table Questions
41. Is it more difficult to say no or yes?
42. What hobbies do you want to learn?
43. What’s your favorite book in the world?
44. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
45. What has come easier to you?
46. How easy or hard is it to accomplish challenging things? Do you have a Growth Mindset?
47. What’s the most important thing your parents taught you?
48. Does your family get along? Your parents get along? Siblings get along?
49. What are the advantages/disadvantages of growing up in a family like ours?
50. What is your leadership style?
!!Bonus!! What are three ways you can support someone who needs a friend today?
Family Squad!
No matter who my kids befriend or marry or work alongside with, I wish with all my heart for them to see THIS SQUAD as their first and most influential; the people who had their back as a child, pushed them into a brave life and will forever love them simply for being themselves.
