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Questions
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Expressions
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Parents & Parenthood |
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Were your parents strict when
you were a kid? Were you ever punished and how? Do you
recall any of your parents' ways of educating you?
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Who took care of your daily
life(Who was your family's care-taker)? You mother or father
or a nanny? Were you close to your parents? What were their
ways of showing their affections?
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Were you an obedient kid?
Did you help in doing household chores?
General questions:
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Have you ever taken the role
of a parent to another kid or an animal?
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Do you believe in Oedipal complex?
Did you experience it before?
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Have you ever been taught to
behave like "a man/woman"?
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Would you be able to accept
it if your kid were a homosexual?
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parental guidance, discipline,
corporeal punishment, spanking, slap on the face, reasoning, grounding,
give sb. a guilt trip, beating, scolding, spoiling,
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daily routines, nursing, diapering,
bathing, hugging, cuddling, to take perternity/maternity leave
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obey, pay lip service to,
household chores, run errands,
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play house, a make-believe;
stray-dog syndrome
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be used to +Ving (present
habit); used to
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Rephrasing: let me
put it another way, in other words,
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Siblings |
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Are you the only child in your
family? If so, what do you feel about being the only chilld?
What did you do to have fun as a kid?
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Do you have sisters, brothers
or cousins who are/were close to you? As kids, did you have rivalry
between/among you? What did you do with your siblings--confiding
to or fighting with them? Telling on them or keeping secret
for them?
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What is the fondest memory you
had with your siblings? And the worst?
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How do you define home and family?
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What is an ideal size of a family
for you?
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solitaire
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Hostility,
friendship, rivalry, to compete with, to stay away from, to share,
to confide in someone (to have someone as a confidant) or to tell something
in confidence,
General :
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center
of gravity, commitment, mutual dependency, sponge on sb., breadwinnder,
intimate friends, nodding acquaintance.
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Toys & Hobbies |
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Did you have a lot of toys?
What were your favorite toys? Did you make toys yourself?
Do you still have any toys?
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Did you ever collect anything?
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Did you ever want something
very badly but never get it? Did you ever envy somebody else for
having what you didn't?
General questions:
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What do you think are the differences
between the toys the kids have today and those you had?
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dolls, stuffed animals, cars
(remote-control cars), robots, chess, poker cards, video games, building
blocks (lego), puzzles, clay (play dough), coloring tools (crayons, pastel,
water color, color pencils).
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sea-shells, stamps, match boxes,
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superiority/inferiority complex,
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Snack |
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Did you like sweets? What
were your favorite snacks? What are the snacks you like now?
General questions:
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What do you consider to be healthy
snacks or junk foods?
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lollipop, popsicle, sweets,
(potato) chips, watermelon seeds, preserved fruit,
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food additives, artificial coloring,
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to snack on, to cater to one's
need for . . .
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I have a hunch that . . . ,
I'll bet that . . .
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Memory |
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What is your earliest memory?
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When did your childhood end?
What's the dominant color and setting of your childhood?
General questions:
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How do you characterize the
childhood your generation/class experienced? How is it different
from that of today's children? To put it simply, what did you
have but they do not have now? And what are the things that they
have now but you did not then?
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I can't quite remember, but
I might have . . .
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I remember exactly how
I Verb . . .
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It brings back memories of
. . . ; Whenever I . . . , it reminds me of . . .
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