5 Questions to Ask Your Child Every Year on their Birthday

One day, your baby will no longer fall while trying to walk their first steps or carry around the same favourite toy every single day. Memories pass by in a blur. And while we as parents take hundreds of photos of our babies, it’s often the little memories around that moment that fade fast.

Yearly video interviews are a great way to preserve and remember such moments fondly. Asking your child the same questions every year is one of the simplest yet most emotional parenting rituals you can start. 

Here are 5 questions to ask your child every year and preserve them for forever.

How old are you?
What’s your favourite color?
What makes you really happy?
What is your favourite food right now?
What do you want to be when you grow up?

1. How old are you?

It sounds funny and simple, but this question becomes emotional over time.

The cute ways your baby says their age, the shakiness in their voice and the tiny fingers they count while answering are the details we as parents often forget but will always want to cherish. When saved every year in a video interview, this question becomes a beautiful timeline of growing up.

2. What’s your favourite colour?

One year it’s yellow because of ducks. The next year it’s blue because their favourite cartoon likes it.

Children change their minds constantly and their favourite colour often reflects the cute little phase of life they’re in and what they are currently obsessed with. Looking back at these answers years later feels like reopening a memory book.

3. What makes you really happy?

This one question tells you more about your baby’s little world than any other question. Sometimes the answers are simply the little moments like:

• Playing with mom
• Getting ice cream
• Going to nani’s house

And these simplest answers become the most treasured memories one day. 

4. What is your favourite food right now?

Every parenting book tells you to remember at least one strange food obsession phase, even during your pregnancy.

Maybe your baby only wanted bananas for weeks. Maybe your toddler survived entirely on french fries for days because they refused to eat anything else. These funny little quirks feel ordinary while they’re happening and even irritating at times. But they become priceless later. 

5. What do you want to be when you grow up?

We have heard this question all our lives and still don’t know the answer. It changes in the sweetest ways over time when you become a parent.

A doctor. A dinosaur. A teacher. Maybe spider-man.

One of the most beautiful parts of parenting is watching your child’s imagination unfold before the world tells them to be realistic.

Bonus: What is your favourite toy right now?

As parents, we remember that one toy our baby carries everywhere and just refuses to let go. The stuffed bunny. The noisy truck. The doll with one missing eye.

We often save photos during pregnancy and the baby years, but we forget the objects that shaped everyday childhood memories and the little moments related to those objects. This question helps preserve those little details before they fade.

Why It Matters?

Children grow up in ways we barely notice as new parents  while living through the chaos of everyday parenting. In fact, many parents are surprised by how quickly everyday childhood details disappear. Read our guide on 10 Childhood Memories Parents Forget to Save. That’s why small traditions and rituals like yearly video interviews matter so much. 

Whether you’re creating a baby memory book, building a pregnancy album or simply trying to hold onto tiny moments as new parents, these answers become irreplaceable over time.

Save this video in your yearly Remember When baby book. Because one day, these tiny answers will become the memories you revisit the most.