Childhood Interview

Have a conversation with your children; consider some questions you’d want to ask but were afraid.  It is very likely your adult children will be eager to [finally] have this conversation.

Inspiration:

In the Summer of 2018 I took a course on Child Theology at Regent College with Dr. James M. Houston, It inspired me to put together a series of questions to ask my adult children. Since I had not had a chance to do this with either of my parents I was eager to start a conversation of things left unsaid, of topics not spoken:

Encouragement:

Let me encourage you, if you are a parent of a certain age, and if you have adult children near or estranged, to start a conversation of healing.  There is nothing particularly special about these questions – they just started us off:

Questions:

• What is your first memory as a child?

• What is your most painful memory as a child?

• What is your best memory as a child?

• What do you wish did not happen to you as a child?

• What did you need – but didn’t get as a child?

• How would you describe your childhood?

• What would you like to say about your childhood:
  • • to your parents?
    • to God?

• How does your childhood inform:
  • • your adulthood?
    • your parenthood?
    • your spiritual journey?
    • your marriage?

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Let me know how it goes; and let me know if you came up with some other/better questions.

Grace to you as you continue to relate to your children over the ages.