Juicy questions to ask friends
Watch out for same old same old when you’re spending time with friends and family say experts, and, after coming back from a girlfriend’s dinner, I have to agree.
Seems that if we’re not careful, time spent chatting with trusted friends (and even family) tends to focus on caregiving challenges…and unwittingly the aftermath can leave us more frustrated than uplifted.
While checking in and following up on past conversations, it’s sometimes more bond strengthening to share different experiences, thoughts and ideas. In particular, for caregivers, the time away moments of respite that can be found in a change of topic can be refreshingly healthy.
Here are ten suggestions that just might get your creative juices flowing and put a smile on everyone’s face during your next outing. You might even want to try a couple of these, or think up a few relevant ones of your own, to pull out during a caregiving visit when there’s a quiet moment:
1) What’s the funniest, or worst piece of advice anyone gave you growing up?
2) If you could live in another country for a year, where would it be?
3) When you make a resolution do you stick to it? Pray tell?
4) Who was your favourite childhood teacher? Or celebrity crush?
5) Do you have an ‘earliest memory’? First love?
6) Can you think of a strange habit/tradition that our family has or had?
7) Is there a prized possession that you’ve hung on to for years?
8) If you had a chance to learn one thing, what would it be?
9) Anything worth reading or watching that you could recommend?
10) The best meal you’ve ever had? Where and when?
11) Nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
12) Have you ever lost and found something again? Tell me the story?
Hope a few of these will add some fun and a bit of a distraction from serious everyday topics so you’ll feel a little big lighter and a bit more recharged when you head back into the trenches.
Publisher/Editor
Caroline Tapp-McDougall
caroline@bcsgroup.com
