The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A bushel of self-confidence.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗
Compassion, resourcefulness and resilience form a rounded good person. So that’s what I’d like to leave my children and grandchildren.
More than I can, sadly. I led the softest of lives in the softest of times, and my daughter will face sterner challenges.
As little rubbish to sort through as possible.
For them, home is the world. For them, every human being is just one member of that large human family you have. ... if we have more children like mine, in my view, we will not have war.
Holding a large and fragile glass object in a very dangerous environment.
Empathetic, humble and strong.
Barack Obama, for his humility and grace in the face of enormous difficulty.
Telling a story to my son about my brother.
I worry about doing everything right with my kids.
“You’re selfish.” It was a friend.
Keir Starmer, Katie Melua, Ali Abbasi, Bear Grylls, Nina Riggs, Zack Polanski
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