I had the opportunity to take a trip with our youngest child recently and made a video about the trip as well as why I take trips like this.

20 Questions to Ask Your Kids

What are your favorite foods?
What was your favorite thing about today?
What is your favorite subject in your schoolwork?
What would you like to be when you grow up?
What is your favorite thing to do?
What embarrasses you the most in our family?
What are you most afraid of?
What is your favorite thing to learn about outside of school subjects?
What irritates you the most in our family?
What makes you the most angry?
What has disappointed you the most in your life?
If you could change the way you look in any way, what would you change?
What are your favorite things to do as a family?
If you could change anything about me, what would it be?
What are two things you would like to do this year?
Who do you admire the most outside your family and why?
If you could travel anywhere within this state, where would you go and why?
If you could travel anywhere within this country, where would you go and why?
If you could travel to anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
What would you most like to accomplish for God in your life?

Some of these questions are just to open up the conversation and make them comfortable to talk. Others are more in depth questions where you have to be willing to hear the answer and will probably have to encourage them to be honest with you. These questions and questions like them are are not unique to us and these are a starting point that you can use to come up with your own questions. Some obviously will not apply to very young children but may apply to older ones. The important thing is to talk to your children and listen to their answers. In order to be effective, it also means you must be willing to ask questions that might be hard to hear the answers to.