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