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Questions to ask · Home and everyday life · for your Dad

What are you secretly very good at?

Why this question matters

Everyday life is what disappears first: the Sunday routine, the smell of the kitchen, the jobs everyone had. This question keeps the ordinary days, which are often the dearest.

Ask it on a quiet afternoon, give time for the answer, and write down the small details. That is where the story lives.

  1. What hobbies or projects make you lose track of time?
  2. What is a film or book that changed how you see things?
  3. What is your favourite place you've ever been?
  4. What can you fix or build with your own hands?
  5. What little thing always makes you laugh?

From the journal

Keep Dad’s answers in one book.

This is one of the 100 guided questions in Tell Me Your Story, Dad. Every page has room to write the answer by hand.

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