These questions make for enriching dinner table conversation, but they can be equally illuminating if you simply ask them of yourself. I stumbled onto the idea of asking big questions because I needed them myself. They drive our growth, and we can come back to them year after year.

1. What is your view on stereotypic roles within the family?
2. What is your view on childrearing and discipline?
3. What relational issues (between you and close family and friends) seem to come up time and time again?