Questions to Get You Started

20 Questions to Get Your Story Started

1.Where were you born?


2. What was your full name at birth?


3. Why were you given this name?


4. Did you have any nicknames?


5. What do you remember most about your childhood? 

6.Where did you grow up?


7. What was your neighborhood like?


8. What were your favorite toys as a child?


9. What kinds of chores did you have as a child? 

10. What would you say makes your family unique from other families? 

11. If you had to create a family motto, what would it be?


12. When you were little what did you want to be when you grew up? 

13. How would the people in high school describe you? 

14. What meals would be in your family cookbook?

 

15. What is the best decision you ever made?


16. What is the funniest family story you remember? 

17.What are you most proud of? 

18.Describe a time you were embarrassed.


19. What was your first car? How did you pay for it?


20. What songs have held special meaning to you over the years? 

For more questions like this, check out our Guided Journals.

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