Girls, print out this page and ask your mom to answer the questions on another piece of paper.
1. If you could choose any historical period for our family to live in, what would you choose and why?
2. What’s the toughest thing about being a mom?
3. If you could write a book about our family, what would you title it?
4. How can I make your life easier?
5. What people skills do you see in me?
6. What will make me a great wife someday?
7. What do you most admire about me?
8. What’s one of your favorite teen memories?
9. What’s your favorite gift received from me?
10. If you were my age right now—and we weren’t related—would you select me to be your friend? Why or why not?
11. One more question (Girls, this is your choice; ask what you want.):
Girls, answer the following questions and share them with your mom.
1. What’s your favorite thing to eat that your mom cooks?
2. What do you wish your mom cooked more often?
3. What’s your favorite room in your house and why?
4. How can your mom make your life better?
5. What’s your favorite memory of your family?
6. What do you love most about your relationship with mom?
7. What frustrates you regarding your relationship with mom?
8. What are three characteristics you want in your future husband?
9. What qualities from your mom’s marriage do you want in your future marriage?
10. If you could take your family on an all-expenses-paid vacation, where would you go and why?
11. One more question (Girls, let your mom write this last question for you to answer.)
Taken from Mother & Daughter CLOSER to God and to each other by Susie Shellenberger. Focus on the Family published with Tyndale. Copyright 2006. Used with permission.
