Five Questions to Ask Your Dad This Father's Day

There are questions we all want to ask our parents

Sometimes we ask, but more often than not, we wait.  We wait for the right time, the right moment… We wait until the camera is fully charged or when we have time to write out each and every question. We wait for our siblings to weigh in. We wait until all our ducks are in a row. We wait it feels like the time to say 'goodbye' is approaching. Sometimes we wait too long.

This Father’s Day, we implore you NOT to wait and wanted to share a few of our favorite questions to ask during our Why Wait Stories Legacy Film interviews. 

Ask them in the car, or over breakfast, while recording with Voice Memos or your camera phone.  JUST ASK.

  1. What was your favorite childhood experience?

  2. What’s the most valuable life lesson that you've learned?

  3. Tell me about the moment you fell in love with Mom…

  4. What were your aspirations when you were young, and how did they evolve over time?

  5. Is there anything you wish you had done differently in your life, and why?

 If you’d like professional broadcast journalists to help your family create a Legacy Film honoring your dad this Father's Day, we hope you'll think of us here at Why Wait Stories!


The WHY behind Why Wait Stories

The idea Why Wait Stories came slowly, then all at once. After my father was diagnosed with stage four cancer, I wanted to interview him. I was a journalist after all.  

At the time, I was the evening anchor at a local TV station in Colorado. I loved asking questions and, coincidentally, my dad loved telling stories.

This is where I would like to tell you I have a beautifully edited film of my dad telling me all about his childhood in Ireland and sharing the wisdom that would serve me in the years ahead. But I don’t... because I waited for the "right time.”

After we said goodbye, I did the next best thing. I hired a news videographer and we set up shop in the Irish bar where we celebrated my dad's life. Fueled by Guinness and Barry’s Tea, everyone told stories, great ones. That’s the thing about memorial services… everyone walks in the door with a distinct memory in their mind, a memory that must be shared.

That film, which I now call “The Life Well Lived Film,” is my most treasured possession. Every year, I watch it on his birthday. One year, it hit me...

Why Wait Stories is something we all need... something the world needs. 

My dream is that someday, we will all have beautifully produced films featuring the people we love... that creating a Legacy Film will be as natural as booking a family photographer or hiring a lawyer to draw up your will.

Now I’m asking you… Why Wait?