Conversations on the Go: Clever Questions to Keep Teens and Grown-Ups Talking

by Mary Ackerman, Rebecca Aldridge (Editor)

Fun ways to encourage family and other youth-adult conversations, this book is filled with intriguing questions, guaranteed to stretch the imagination and bring out each other's personality and true self.

100 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

Reviews

[Johanna · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of the questions were repetitive, just worded differently. My kids were bored and confused for most of the questions but we did have a bit of fun on a few good questions. Next time I’ll google conversation starters.

[Douglas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a mentor in this big brother program called I Have A Dream (IHAD) www.ihadla.org They handed this book out at one of the mentor training sessions to help give us ideas and open up communication with our mentee's.

The book is a lightning fast read. The questions are open ended and deep. I can easily see the mentee's talking for a while trying to answer a lot of the questions. As a mentor, you could just show up with the book and go through the questions one by one, but that would feel too academic. What I plan to do is give the book to my mentee and have him write inside it his answers to the questions. When I re-read the book with his answers, it should help me find out which questions I should probe deeper into.

The best part of the book is the last two pages about internal and external factors. If you as the mentor can internalize it, then as a mentor or future parent, it will provide a good framework to help govern your decision making.

3.5 stars