What was the view out of your front window?

Was your house 1 story, 2 story? Brick or wood? Did you have a garage? What was the floor plan? Did it have a back door? Did you use it much?

Was the house you raised your family in big enough for all of you? Did your kids share a room? How many times did you move?

What was the best part of being a parent? The worst?

Can you remember one memorable thing that each of your children said, something that surprised, amused or impressed you at the time that still sticks in your mind?

What was your scariest moment in parenting? What was the toughest? What was your proudest for each child?

Who did you hire as a babysitter? What was the going rate?

Did you ever have to take a child to the emergency room?

What TV shows do you remember your children watching? Did you watch any of these with them? Did you let them eat in front of the TV?

Were you involved in the PTA or as a room parent at school? Did a teacher ever call you to discuss a problem with your child or tell you something that made you very proud?

Did you have a rocking chair for your babies? Where was it at?

What did you kids call you growing up?

What did you do to punish your children? Was this hard for you to do? Which of your children needed the most discipline? Why do you think?

Did you buy your children a set of encyclopedias when they were growing up? What kind? Where did you keep them? Did they use them very often?

Did your babies have hair when they were born?

Who taught your children how to drive? Do you have any memorable stories about that?

What was your children’s favorite bed time story or poem?

Who did you call first to say “It’s a boy or girl”? Can you remember what you said when the doctor or nurse gave you baby for the first time? Can you remember your spouse’s first words?