Monday, November 21, 2011

My Advice to Children: Questions to Ask Your Parents During the Holiday Season

During this cheery and often-joyous season of the year, it's a wonderful time for each of you American children and all other Americans under age 30 to each pose polite and appreciative questions to your parents, uncles, aunts, and grandparents.
Those polite and respectful questions can spark a sense of delight and joy in your older relatives----who will also appreciate your kind expresion of interest in them as human beings.

That enthusiasm and delight by your older relatives can also help to inspire a lifelong sense of enthusiasm and delight and cheerfulness and optimism and confidence in yourself.

Among the many possible questions that you might want to pose to an older relative of yours this Holiday Season are:

----When was the happiest day of your entire life?

---How would you personally complete the sentence that begins with, "Happiness is...."

----Does the Holiday Season make you more aware of the value of your being cheerful and smiling frequently and having enjoyable personal conversations on a year-round basis?

---What have been your leading emotional "peak experiences," or most sublimely enjoyable experiences, of your entire life?

---When was the most recent joyous occasion of your life when you felt yourself to be "on top of the world," or a true and very fine winnner?

---Of all the live-performance cultural events that you have attended in your life, which cultural event inspired you the most?

-----Which Holiday Season or Christmas season of yours that you can recall was your all-time happiest?

----Do you believe that your own merriment and happiness during the Holiday Season is significantly enhanced by your certainty that each of the persons whom you've permanently rejected from your own life, are not spying on you or stalking you or contacting you or violating your own privacy rights?

----Do you believe that the Holiday Season or Christmas Season should especially reward all young persons under age 19 who have been honest and polite and honorable and good and virtuous, and who have diligently obeyed the law?

----Do you recall any Holiday Season or Christmas Season of your life that started out unhappy for you, but ended up being a very happy and joyous Holiday Season for you.

----Which Holiday Season or Christmas-theme song do you enjoy singing the most?

----Which Christmas present or Holiday-Season present that you received at any time in your life was your all-time favorite present?

----Which Christmas present or Holiday-Season present that you gave to another person was the present from you that sparked the most joy or delight or enjoyment for that person?

---Do you feel that the Christmas Season or Holiday Season reminds you of the great value of your being generous toward others on a year-round basis?

---Are there any specific individuals less fortunate than yourself whom you know and whom you particularly enjoy being generous toward during the Holiday Season or Christmas Season?

---Which special Christmas-Season traditions or special Holiday Season traditions that you have participated in have you enjoyed the most?

----Do you generally write up your New Year's Resolutions during the Christmas Season or Holiday Season?

----Of all the New Year's Resolutions of yours that you have kept or honored in full in the new year, which New Year's Resolutions of yours were the very finest or most helpful to you?

---Of all the Christmas-theme and Holiday-Season fictional movies that you have seen in your life, which Holiday-Season movie did you enjoy the most?

---What is your favorite Holiday-Season board game or other Holiday-Season game that you like to participate in at this time of the year?

----Are there any very special foods or meals or beverages that our family traditionally eats or drinks during the Holiday Season?

----Do you have any anecdotes or personal stories about Christmas Seasons or Holiday Seasons of your past that you especially enjoy sharing with younger relatives of yours?

----Which attributes of yours or personality traits of yours are you the proudest of?

----Which personality traits or personal attributes of your spouse do you admire the most or love the most?

---What do you admire the most or love the most about your father?

----What do you admire the most or love the most about your mother?

----In which specific ways do you believe that you are a very good or successful parent?

----Of all the people you have loved in your non-romantic or platonic life, which persons not related to you have you loved the most?

----What was the most courageous action you ever pursued in your life?

----Do you recall any occasions in your life when you have you strongly supported and helped to protect or strengthen the Freedom of Speech rights or Freedom of Religion rights or privacy rights or Freedom of Association rights of someone other than yourself?

---What do you admire the most or love the most about each of my grandparents?

---Which ancestor of yours has been the most inspirational for you as a human being? What made that ancestor's life particularly impressive to you?

----Of the many people whom you have known in your life, which individual do you believe was the most optimistic person you have ever met?

----Who are your lifelong mutual-consent personal friends, and would you be willing to please tell me more about what makes each of those friends of yours very special to you.

----Which of the various persons you've known have done the most to help open up new and creative opportunities for you and introduce you to new people who are honorable and law-abiding and friendly.

---Of all the party hosts you have known in your life, which individual was your all-time favorite party host?

---Of the various types of figurative births or periods of renewal that you have yourself personally experienced in your own life, which was the most sublimely pleasurable for you?

---Of the many people whom you have known, which individual do you regard as the most honest and law-abiding person you have ever known?

---Of the various law-enforcement officers whom you have met in person, which law-enforcement officer do you admire the most or like the most?

---Of the various persons who have lived in the same neighborhood as yourself during your life so far, which neighbor of yours or next-door neighbor of yours was or is your all-time favorite?

---Which Holiday Season of your entire life has been your happiest or most enjoyable?

---How important is religion for you during the Holiday Season?

---What are your favorite charity causes or philanthropy causes?

----Which were your favorite subjects to study during the period of your life in which you attended school or college or a university?

---Do you pursue a life-long education strategy for yourself?

---In which specific ways, if any, do you seek to continue your education in the years after your graduation from a school?

---Which magazine or newspaper that you read on a frequent or regular basis is your favorite?

---What makes that particular magazine or newspaper your personal favorite?

---Of all the questions that you yourself have posed to other persons in your life, which question that you posed has been the most helpful to you in your own life?

---Of the questions that you have posed to another person in your life, which question from yourself has been the most helpful to that person?

---What was the nicest or best or finest compliment or word of praise that anyone has ever offered you?

----Of all the questions that other people have posed to you in your life, which question has been either the most helpful to you or your all-time favorite question to yourself?

----Which year of your life has been your happiest year? What made that year your all-time happiest?

---Which decade of your life or multi-year period of your life has been your happiest?

---What are your all-time favorite credos or mottos or sayings that you strive to live by, or that guide you in your everyday life?

----What do you believe have been your leading accomplishments so far in your life?

----In your entire life so far, what do you believe has been your biggest recovery from a setback or disappointment or temporary failure that you sustained during your life?

---What was the funniest thing that ever happened to you?

----What was the funniest comment that you ever made to anyone else?

---Do you remember the occasion when you laughed for the longest consecutive period without being able to stop laughing? What prompted you to laugh for that many consecutive minutes?

----What was the funniest joke that you ever heard or told to another person?

---If you were asked to cite the five or 10 favorite persons not related to you from your entire life, who would you cite? What made each of those individuals an all-time personal favorite of yours?

---Who was or is the best or finest work supervisor you ever had? What made him or her your all-time favorite work supervisor?

---Of the various jobs and careers you have pursued in your life, which job or career was the one you enjoyed the most?

---Do you remember the biggest promotion in your career that you ever received, and how much that increased your gross annual income?

---If you had not chosen the career that you currently pursue, which other career would you have chosen, do you think?

---What do you believe makes for success in a career or paying job?

---Which awards or honors or prizes or victories that you have received or earned or won in your life so far have given you the greatest overall satisfaction as a human being?

---Which hobbies or pastimes or leisuretime activities of yours have given you the most sublime pleasure or creative fulfillment?

---Which new skill or talent, whether in your career or your personal life or your religious life, are you currently attempting to learn or develop? Also, which steps are you currently taking to learn or develop that new skill or talent for yourself?

----Which special or rare skill you've developed (a special or rare skill that the majority of Americans do not currently have, to the best of your knowledge) is the special or rare skill you are most glad that you developed in your own life?

----Would you ever like to own your own business? If you could own your own business, what would you like your business to offer or sell or produce?

----Which cuisines of the world or culinary dishes or non-alcoholic beverages are your all-time favorites?

---Of the many generous persons you have gotten to know in your life so far, which person do you believe was or is the most generous person you have ever known? What made that individual so generous?

----Of all the choices and decisions you have made in your life so far, which choices and decisions you directly made have been your very best or finest?

---Which priority that you've established for yourself in your own life is an example of priority-setting that you feel was the wisest and best choice in that way that you made for yourself?

----Of all the famous people and celebrities you have ever heard about or read about, which famous people or celebrities would you most want to meet in person?

---Which heroes of yours from your childhood or college days are today among the persons whom you currently regard as heroic?

---Which authors or journalists or artists or entertainers or cultural leaders or educators or professional athletes have been your all-time favorites?

---Of all the U.S. Presidents or Governors of the state where you live, which current or former or late U.S. Presidents or state Governors do you admire the most?

----Of the famous people and celebrities whom you have met in person, which individuals did you like the most or enjoy meeting with the most?

----Have you ever received a friendly signed letter from a famous person whom you admire? If so, do you recall what that letter said to you?

----Of all the people you have enjoyed having in-person conversations with, which individuals stand out as your all-time-favorite in-person conversational companions?

----Of all the persons who have put you at ease and had a calming effect on you during in-person converstaions you had with them, which person or persons do you believe you had the highest level of friendly and brotherly or sisterly inter-personal intimacy with?

----Which villages, towns, cities, states, and foreign countries are your all-time favorites, and why?

---Which island did you enjoy visiting the most? What made that island your all-time favorite island to visit?

----What do you like the most or love the most about the United States of America?

----What do you like the most or love the most about our northern neighbor, Canada?

----What do you like the most or love the most about our southern neighbor, Mexico?

---Which foreign country would you most like to visit?

---Which U.S. state other than the one where you currently reside would you most like to visit?

----What do you like the most or love the most about the city and state where you currently live?

----If you could change one thing about the town or city or state or nation or world in which we live today, what change would you most want to make?

----When you feel the most confident about worldwide peace occurring on this planet, what do you believe will help to make that worldwide peace and harmony occur?

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