What are some of your intrinsic characteristics? How soon after you were born had your parents noticed them?

Before you got to know your closest friend, had you expected that you would get along?

In what ways do you take after your parents? By what age had you discovered these similarities?

What do you have in common with your brother, sister, or cousin? Had you realized this similarity when you were still children?

Had you met a pair of twins before you were 12? In what ways did they look and act alike?

By the time you were seven years old, had you discovered a talent for music, art, or anything else? Tell me about it.

How might you be different if your parents had moved to another country before you were born?

Until what age were your parents a major influence on your life? What important value had you learned from them by that time?

What is something you had never thought about until you or one of your friends had a child?

Were your parents strict or relaxed? How might your personality be different if your parents had been different?

What is your birth order? How might you be different if you had been the oldest (or youngest) child?

As a child, what had you dreamed of becoming? Had your goals changed by the time you were an adult?

How had you expected your living conditions to change before your family experienced a major change (such as a move to another country or the birth of a child)?