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Questions that open something rather than close it. Use them in the car, at the table, or in the ten minutes before sleep — and keep the ones that work in your Living Room.

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What was the best bit of today, and what was the bit you would delete?

Younger kids · School age

What is the hardest part of a school day that has nothing to do with lessons?

School age · Tweens

What does someone do that makes you think, I want to be friends with them?

School age · Tweens

Where in your body do you notice a worry first?

School age · Tweens · Teens

What is something you are quietly proud of that nobody has mentioned?

Tweens · Teens

If you could change one rule in this family, which one would you change and how?

School age · Tweens · Teens

What do you think you will be like at twenty-five?

Tweens · Teens

If our house had one extra room that could be anything, what would you put in it?

Younger kids · School age

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