Ask Great Questions
Start Having Powerful, Meaningful Conversations with Your Teens by asking FUN questions.
Conversation between parents and kids has proven to have a lifelong impact. Use these questions to get your kids to think critically, teach a growth mindset and strengthen the relationship you have with them. Whether it’s over the dinner table or in the car, start asking your kids thought-provoking questions that will result in a meaningful conversation.
Conversation between parents and kids has proven to have a lifelong impact. Use these questions to get your kids to think critically, teach a growth mindset and strengthen the relationship you have with them. Whether it’s over the dinner table or in the car, start asking your kids thought-provoking questions that will result in a meaningful conversation.

- Which would you rather have: $1,000,000 today or 1 cent doubled every day for 30 days? (this teaches your kids about compound interest)
- Would you rather be the boss or employee and what would make you better at one position versus the other?
- If you could have only one superpower, what would it be?
- Describe yourself in 5 words or less.
- If you could give every person a gift in the world, but if would have to be the same gift, what would that gift be?
- Imagine you’re the President and you need to have 3 people to assist you. Who would you pick and why?
- If you could set one rule for the family that we all have to follow, what would it be?
- If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
- When do you feel a child or teen becomes an adult?
- What have you learned in life that you feel will be the most useful?
- Describe what a perfect day would be from the moment you wake until bed.
- If you could change anything in the world, what 3 things would it be and why?
- If you could eat dinner with 3 people you don’t know, who would it be and where would you go?
- 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?
- What’s the best invention you’ve seen most recently and what do you like about it?
- What makes our family amazing that you feel is unique about us?
- What are 3 things are you grateful for in your life and why?
- What are 3 really small victories that you’ve had the last few days that you’re proud of?
- What’s a hobby that you don’t currently do that you’d love to learn? What’s holding you back from starting?
- What do you feel are the most important things to living a great life?
- If we lost everything we owned today but could keep 3 things, what would you pick and why?
- Imagine you’re the teacher tomorrow at school. What are 3 things you’d teach that you think would help make school more useful for one’s future?
- When someone is feeling stressed, what are 3 suggestions you’d share with them on how to feel less stressed?
- What do you feel is the hardest job in the world and why?
- When you wake up each morning, if you could think of 3 things that would make you truly happy, what are they and why?
- How would you explain the word love to someone without using the word “love”?
- Do you believe money can or can’t buy happiness?
- Think of the worst thing that’s happened to you… what did you learn from it?
- Of all the things you’re learning, what do you think will be most useful as an adult?
- If you could travel back in time 3 years, what advice would you give yourself?
- Which of your friends do you think I would or do like the most? Why?
- If you could grow up to be famous, what would you be famous for?
- How would you change the world if you could?
- How can you help someone today?
- If you could make one rule that everyone in the world had to follow, what would it be?
- If you had enough money that you never had to work, what would you do with your time?
- Have you passed up on any chances that you now regret? What were they?
- If you were told you would live forever, what would you change about your life?
- What are you most afraid of?
- What do you think is keeping you from complete happiness?
- What’s your greatest strength and your greatest weakness?
- What is the achievement you’re most proud of and why?
- What’s one thing you did in the last 24 hours to make someone’s life better?
- Where in the world would you most like to live?
- What’s had the greatest impact on your life, good or bad, and why?
- What do you do when you can’t sleep at night?
- If we experience our greatest moments of growth and learning from failure, why are we so afraid to fail?
- What product would you stockpile if you found out it wasn’t going to be sold anymore?
- Do you have any bad habits you wish you could break? What are they?
- If you had no physical, financial or other obstacles, what skill would you like to have?