With children

Parents and children roughly six to twelve years old. At a table, in a car, at bedtime.

66 questions

When did you last run to catch something, and did you catch it?
When did you last talk out loud to an animal in the street?
When did you last apologise out loud to a piece of furniture?
When did you last feed an animal that was not yours?
What do you refuse to eat that you have never tasted?
What could you teach me to do properly in the next ten minutes?
What can you identify by sound alone?
What game do you know the real rules to?
What's the hardest thing you can do with your hands?
How do you decide which queue to join at the supermarket?
What could you draw from memory better than anyone here?
Do I seem like someone who sings in the car? Why or why not?
Do I seem like someone who talks to animals? Why or why not?
Guess who here would carry a spider outside. Why them?
When did you last get stung or bitten by something outdoors?
When did you last make something with your hands?
When did you last touch a wild animal?
When did you last eat something you picked outdoors?
When did you last need a plaster, and how did you earn it?
When did you last cook something over a fire?
When did you last climb a tree, and who was watching?
When did you last sing out loud in a car?
When did you last fall over in front of other people?
When did you last get in trouble at school, and for what?
When did you last get lost, and who found you?
When did you last cry at a film, and which one?
When did you last win something, and where is it now?
When did you last shout at a machine?
When did you last get a haircut you hated?
When did you last break something and say nothing?
When did you last hear your own voice on a recording?
When did you last play a game you are too old for?
When did you last get soaked by rain and keep walking?
When did you last name something: a pet, a car, a plant?
When did you last climb onto a roof?
When did you last carry something far too heavy on your own?
When did you last take something apart to see inside it?
What rule in this house makes no sense, and who would defend it?
What subject did you fail and still love?
What did you hate as a child that you now do for fun?
What food do you pretend to like at this table?
What chore did you volunteer for to escape a worse one?
What lie did you tell as a child that worked?
What are adults wrong about that you will never get wrong?
What are you allowed to do that you think you should not be?
What are you better at than your parents, and do they know?
How do you fold a fitted sheet, and who showed you?
How do you know when it is going to rain?
What plant have you kept alive longest, and what does it need?
Which chore was yours as a kid, and what was your system?
Explain a game you play at break that no adult knows the rules to.
Which video game could you explain to a grandparent in one minute?
What is the correct way to build a den, and where should it go?
What is the best hiding place in this house, and why does it work?
What did you play outside at nine, and what were the rules?
Guess what your parents were like at seventeen. Then let them correct you.
Guess the job I wanted at ten, and why that fits me.
Do I seem like someone who reads the instructions before building it? Why?
Guess what I would grab first if the house flooded, and why that.
Guess which food I refused to eat as a child, and how you know.
Do I seem like someone who sleeps through thunderstorms? Why or why not?
Kids: guess what your parents did for fun before you were born.
Parents: guess your child's proudest moment this year, then let them correct you.
Guess what is in my bag right now that should not be there.
Guess which of us would last longest camping alone, and say why.
Do I seem like someone who talks to animals when alone? Why?

Ask 7 of these around the table