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Family Dinner Project

Dinner is the perfect time to gather for conversation with your Purdue family. Sharing a meal and conversation with the people closest to you can improve your connections with those you value most. Click on Get a New Quote for a variety of suggested conversation ideas to discuss with your Purdue family.

  • How is being compassionate different from being nice?
  • Who do you feel most excited to see during the day?
  • What three words would you use to describe your family?
  • How could you let someone know that you understand how they feel?
  • Have you ever had an argument with a friend? How did you resolve things?
  • What two qualities do you want all your friends to have?
  • What makes you a good friend? Sibling? Child? Parent?
  • How do others help you?
  • What is your favorite way to keep in touch with people you don’t see every day?
  • What would your perfect day be like? Where would you go? Who would be with you?
  • What do you think makes a person popular?
  • If you were the principal of your school, would you change anything? What would you do?
  • If you joined the circus, what would your act be?
  • What can you give or do for someone that doesn’t cost any money?
  • If you were a teacher and could teach your students anything at all, what would you teach them?
  • If you woke up tomorrow and could do one thing that you can’t do right now, what would it be?
  • What is one thing you hope for yourself, a loved one, or the world?
  • How do you want to impact the world in the next year?
  • Finish this sentence: “I wish the world…”
  • What is your favorite summer food to eat?
  • What is your most unusual talent?
  • Talk about two things for which you felt thankful or grateful for today?
  • Name three things that are fun for you.
  • What is your favorite family tradition, and why?
  • If you had 3 wishes, what would they be? (You can’t wish for more wishes!)
  • If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you want to live?
  • What is the greatest song ever written?
  • If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what food would you choose?
  • What’s one fun thing you hope to do in the next year?
  • What’s the funniest or strangest thing that happened to you today?
  • If you were showing a foreigner around your hometown, where would you take them?
  • What would your perfect day be like? Where would you go? Who would be with you?
  • If you were a season, which season would you be and why?
  • If you went back in time 100 or 200 years and could only bring 3 things with you, what would you bring?
  • What would the title of your autobiography be?
  • What is one thing you can do this week to take care of yourself?
  • If you could have a character from a book or movie as a best friend, who would it be?
  • What is your favorite childhood storybook? What’s special about it?
  • If you could change one thing about the world, what would you change?
  • In the year 2030, what do you hope we will have discovered that will make the world better?
  • If you had the power to cure one disease, what would you cure?
  • What do you hope to do this summer?
  • What do you want your life to be like in 10 years? What about in 20 years? 50?
  • If you could make money doing whatever you love to do, what would you do for a living?
  • What new skill do you wish you could learn?
  • What is one thing you are waiting for or looking forward to right now?
  • If you started your own charity, who or what would it help?
  • What Earth traditions would you bring to a new space colony? Which ones would you definitely leave behind?
  • You have a sailboat big enough to sail around the world. Chart your path. Where will you go?