Catch Your Story Story Prompts

  1. What is the craziest thing that happened to you last year?
  2. What is the scariest thing that has happened to you?
  3. What is your proudest moment?
  4. What’s your favorite memory from childhood? What impression did it make?
  5. What’s an important memory you only know from others who remember it?
  6. What places from your childhood do you remember most fondly?
  7. Did you have an imaginary friend (or friends)? What were they like?
  8. What was the best gift you remember receiving as a child? Why was it the best?
  9. Have you ever had to deal with a bully? What did you do?
  10. What have you learned from people of different generations or backgrounds?
  11. What do older generations not understand about yours? How is your life different?
  12. What’s your most embarrassing memory from your teenage years?
  13. What’s your proudest memory from your teenage years, and why?
  14. Have you had to overcome a childhood disease or injury?
  15. Did you lose someone to disease, a tragic accident, or natural causes?
  16. Were you born with a visible, physical challenge that affected your childhood?
  17. Were you born with an invisible health challenge that affected your childhood?
  18. Describe your parents or guardians and their parenting styles?
  19. Describe a favorite memory about growing up with your family?
  20. Are you close to your parents and/or siblings? Are any estranged from you?
  21. What is your racial or ethnic identity, and did your family share that with you?
  22. How have you paid tribute to loved ones you’ve lost?
  23. How, when, and where did you meet your first BFF and become friends?
  24. Who were your best childhood friends, and what did you do together?
  25. Have you ever wanted a friend to be more than that? Did you tell them?
  26. Have you ever lost a friend who wanted to belong to a popular group?
  27. Have you ever had to put an end to a one-sided friendship?
  28. Have you ever had to break off a relationship with a toxic person?
  29. When have you told a lie of omission, and how did it affect your relationship?
  30. What were your favorite foods growing up, and how often could you have them?
  31. What did you usually drink at home, and do you still drink them?
  32. What did you like as a child that you don’t like now?
  33. What did you dislike as a child that you like now?
  34. What is a favorite food splurge, and what do you love about it?
  35. How often do you cook for yourself, and what foods do you usually make?
  36. How often do you cook for others, and what’s the best meal you’ve prepared?
  37. Did you have a favorite birthday dinner or celebratory meal growing up?
  38. Who were your favorite teachers in elementary school?
  39. When you graduated high school, what did you want to study in college?
  40. Did you go to college, and what do you remember most about your first year?
  41. When and how did you learn to manage your money?
  42. Could students at your high school talk openly about mental health challenges?
  43. How have Health and Phy Ed classes influenced your body image?
  44. How have Health and Phy Ed classes influenced your attitude toward exercise
  45. When you were in grade school, what did you want to be when you grew up?
  46. What was your first job? How did you get it, and how old were you?
  47. Did you get a job in your chosen field right out of college? If so, how and when?
  48. Do you have a life calling? And if so, is your current job part of it?
  49. What do you hope to be doing within a year of graduating college?
  50. What did you not believe as a minor that you do believe now?

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