Interview Your Child Yearly

Interview your child yearly for a time capsule. This will be one project you thank yourself for doing, years later. Imagine your child opening their own Baby Time Capsule when they graduate high school. What will be in their time capsule that describes their life, and especially what it was like their first few years.

Sometimes it can be very difficult to interview your child, because they will get bored and restless.  You do not have to do these interview questions all at once. You might want to spread this project out over the next couple of days. If you want, you can video record their answers, or just write them down to save in a scrapbook or photo album. You would be surprised how your child’s answers can change from week to months later. Kids can be very creative. That is what makes interviewing them so much fun.

You can even ask these same questions at the beginning of the school year, and then again at the end. It will be interesting to see how their answers change. You can even add other school related questions as your child grows, like when they learned their ABCs or colors, or what is their favorite thing to do at school?

Be patient and open to letting your child talk. Do not help encourage the answers for them. This will help make the answers more fun to read years or decades later. However, if your child says “I don’t know” as an answer to a question, ask him to “guess” or lead him to an answer. Then, encourage your child to elaborate on his answers. This will help them tell why more and stretch out their story or dream job when they grow up.

1. What is your name?
2. How old are you?
3. When is your birthday?
4. What is your favorite food?
5. What are you good at doing?
6. What pets do you have? What are their names?
7. Who are your best friends?
8. Who is your favorite teacher?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. Where does Mommy work? What does she do there?
11. Where does Daddy work? What does he do there?
12. What is your address?
13. What do you like about your house (ask for a tour and video record it)?
14. What do you like about your room?
15. In what country do you live?
16. In what state do you live?
17. In what city do you live?
18. Who is the president of your country?
19. Where do you want to live when you grow up?
20. What do you do every day?
21. What time do you get up?
22. Where do you go to school?
23. If you could do whatever you wanted all day long, what would you do?
24. How much does a Happy Meal cost?
25. How much does a new car cost?
26. How much does a new house cost?
27. Do you get an allowance? How much is it?
28. If you could have all of the money in the world, what would you buy?
29. What is your favorite song?
30. What is your favorite TV show?
31. What is your favorite movie?
32. What is your favorite book?
33. What is your favorite cartoon?
34. What is your favorite toy?
35. Where do you like to go most?
36. Where do you like to go on vacation?
37. Have you ever been in an airplane?
38. What is your favorite restaurant?
39. Show me how you ride your bike (or other favorite activity).
40. What is your favorite sport to play?
41. What is your favorite sport to watch?
42. Who is your favorite athlete?
43. What is the Super Bowl?
44. What is your favorite outfit (clothes)?
45. What is your favorite color?
46. What is your favorite car?
47. How does a T.V. work?
48. How does a phone work?
49. Do you have a laptop computer?
50. What do you like best about your laptop computer?
51. Do you play video games? Which are your favorites?
52. Do you think cars will fly when you are grown up?
53. Will you be able to go to the moon when you are grown up?
54. How old will you be when you get married?
55. How many children do you want to have?
56. Can you count? Please count for me.
57. Do you know your ABCs? Tell them to me.
58. How do you make a hamburger (or a turkey or a favorite meal)?
59. How old will you be when you graduate from high school?
60. What is a Time Capsule?

We hope you enjoy these questions. Remember to interview your child yearly, to see how the answers change over time. Let us know in the comments below if you can think of any other fun questions to ask your child. Save these creative answers in their Baby Time Capsule.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie