Questions to ask your mom

Questions to ask your mom about her childhood

Who she was before she was your mom.

1. What's your favorite memory from your own childhood?
2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
3. What's something you were proud of yourself for, growing up?
4. What's the funniest thing I did as a toddler?
5. What did you and your friends do for fun as teenagers?

Questions to ask your mom about becoming a mom

Pregnancy, the first years, and what nobody warned her about.

6. What's the hardest part of being a mom that no one warns you about?
7. What did you feel the moment you found out you were pregnant with me?
8. What's your favorite memory of me as a baby?
9. What's a value your own mother taught you that you tried to pass on to me?
10. What do you wish you'd known about parenting before I was born?

Deep questions to ask your mom

The sacrifices and hard truths that rarely come up at dinner.

11. What's something you sacrificed for our family that I might not know about?
12. What did you dream your life would look like at my age?
13. What's something about your own mother you didn't understand until you became one yourself?
14. What's the hardest decision you've made as a parent?
15. What's a fear you had for me that you've since let go of?

Questions about the two of you

Your shared memories and the things you still want to do together.

16. What's something you learned from me that surprised you?
17. What's a memory of us that you'd want to relive exactly as it happened?
18. What did you want your relationship with me to look like, before I was even born?
19. What did you worry about most when I was little?
20. What's something you always wanted to do together that we haven't done yet?

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