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

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

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

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)?

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

Do you think that you could be an artist today if your parents had taken you to art lessons?

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?

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

Tell me something interesting that a relative had done before he or she got married