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Date	Question
01	Movies based on true stories or true events usually tug at our heart strings. With that in mind, have you ever seen any horror movie that seemed so closed to reality that it caused you to have bad dreams and/or caused you to keep the lights on around the house at nighttime?
02	Some of the best books have been made into really good movies or miniseries, even if the movies/miniseries haven’t always stuck as closely to the text of the book as we would have liked. With that in mind, has there been any book that was made into a movie and/or miniseries that was a total disappoint to you?
03	Many of us look to our parents for guidance and wisdom, knowing that they’ve been many of the places we’re trying to go. With that in mind, and with an understanding that most of our parents have our best interest at heart, would you allow your parent(s) to choose the person you marry?
04	Who do you want to take the series; Celtics or Lakers?
07	Up until you purchased your new home, your fiance and children lived with your soon-to-be in-laws. Your children have allergies/asthma and the major motivation for moving them from their current living situation was that your fiance’s parents smoke. Even though they know it makes the children sick, when they lived with your soon-to-be in-laws the children’s grandparents refused to go outside to smoke. You couldn’t complain then because it was your fiance’s parents’ house. Now that you have your own place, your fiance is pushing you to allow the parents to smoke inside your home when they visit. What do you do?
08	Beauty seems to be a commodity in our world today. Aside from medically-necessary procedures, how much cosmetic surgery is too much?
09	You and a coworker are attending a conference. The company has booked a two-bedroom suite for you and your coworker to share for the week. Company policy is to reimburse you for expenses, but you must pay up front. Your coworker has a friend who is attending the conference also and who asks if s/he can bunk with you all after hearing that you have a sleeper sofa in your suite. You agree to this since your coworker’s friend has agreed to pay 1/3 of the suite cost. About a week before the conference is to begin, you receive a call from your coworker who tells you his/her friend will not be attending the conference but your coworker has told someone else s/he can take the spot on the sleeper sofa. You don’t know this person, and with a little probing you find out from your coworker that s/he doesn’t know this person that well either. Your coworker really wants you to agree to allow this other person to take his/her friends’ place because the new person is also willing to pay 1/3 of the suite expenses. What do you do?
10	Love and affection from our parents (or guardians) is something that helps us know we are valued and have his/her/their support. With that in mind, do you think it’s appropriate for a parent or guardian to kiss his/her/their child(ren) on the lips?
11	What would you like to know about me, Faydra Deon?
14	My Question of the Day: You have two siblings. You’re very close to one, but you’re not so close to the other one. This is because the sibling whom you’re not close to is very, very hard to get along with, and s/he has always resented the sibling to whom you are very close because it seems to the difficult sibling that everyone favors the other sibling more. You and your favorite sibling have tried very hard to get along with your difficult sibling, but anything you all ever plan together ends up falling apart in a disastrous meltdown by the difficult sibling accusing both of you and everyone else in the family of being against him/her at every turn. It just so happens that the difficult sibling is turning 50 on his/her next birthday, and s/he is expecting the entire family to throw him/her a big 50th birthday bash, even though s/he hasn’t been speaking to or interacting with anyone in the family for several months because of his/her meltdown and accusations at the last family function. What’s interesting is that your favorite sibling also has a birthday the same month as the difficult sibling, which actually occurs about three days before your difficult sibling’s birthday, but your difficult sibling has made no mention whatsoever of the other sibling’s birthday. In the past, the family has always celebrated the two birthdays together, because the dates of birth are so close together, but as stated before the difficult sibling always causes a huge scene, gets everyone upset and flustered and then spends months not speaking to anyone in the family because of his/her theory that everyone is against him/her. What you’d like to do is just have a quiet, unannounced birthday party for your favorite sibling on his/her birth date and invite your family members who can keep it secret. You do realize that your other sibling is celebrating a milestone in his/her life and if s/he finds out about the secret party, then it will only add fuel to the difficult sibling’s fire that the family is against him/her. It’s not that you all are against him/her. You’re just tired of all the drama and stress that is caused by the difficult sibling, but you know s/he won’t see it that way. What do you do?
15	My Question of the Day: A male teacher at a private, faith-based elementary school–we’ll call him Adam–asks for a meeting with his principal after school. The principal–we’ll call him Mr. Davis–agrees to meet with Adam after the final bell and all the students have safely departed the building. When Adam arrives for the meeting, he finds Mr. Davis in a reasonably good mood, and they chat a bit about Adam’s recent marriage. Mr. Davis comments on how much he enjoyed the exchange of traditional vows and how he had an opportunity to meet Adam’s parents and siblings. After the small talk, the principal asks Adam why he wanted to meet. Adam tells Mr. Davis that he’d like to take advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, so that he can stay home with his wife and their newborn son. Mr. Davis is quiet for a moment and asks if everything is okay with the baby since he was born prematurely. Adam corrects the principal and tells him that his son was not born prematurely. Again, Mr. Davis is quiet for a moment. Adam waits patiently for an answer as he notices Mr. Davis looking at his calendar. Adam assumes that Mr. Davis is trying to determine how long the school will have to be without him if Mr. Davis honors his request to give him the time off. After about three minutes, Mr. Davis says that he will get back to Adam in a few days. The men shake hands, and Adam leaves the office. Saturday morning Adam receives a letter of termination in the mail. The letter explains that Adam has violated the moral values of the school by conceiving a child out of wedlock. Is this discrimination? Does Adam have any legal recourse to fight his termination?
16	The dynamics of dating have changed so much that there doesn’t seem to be a “norm” anymore. With that in mind, think about this: a woman invites a man on date. Who should be responsible for the finances during the outing?
17	You and a coworker decide to pool your money to buy scratch-and-win lottery tickets. You all will each put in a certain amount of money weekly until you’ve reached a designated threshold. Once you’ve reached that amount, you all will use the money to buy as many tickets as you can and then you’ll split whatever you win. After reaching the threshold, you go together to buy the lottery tickets. Your coworker hands the cashier the cash, and the cashier gives the receipt and the tickets to your coworker, who then splits the stack of tickets and gives you half. You take your tickets home, and your partner does the same. You get home, scratch off all your tickets and end up with a total of $100 in winnings. On your way to work, you stop by the same store where you bought the tickets to cash in your winnings. When you walk up to the register, you notice a new photo behind the counter. It’s a picture of your grinning coworker holding up a huge $75,000 check. You whoop with joy, rush out of the store and drive to your coworker’s home, thinking about how you’re going to spend your half of the $75,000. When you get to your coworker’s house, s/he is less than enthused to see you. Instead of inviting you inside, s/he holds you at the door and explains that s/he doesn’t plan to split the money with you, because the $75,000 winning ticket was in his/her half of the stack you all split the day before. You explain that you all agreed to split the tickets and then split whatever you won. Your coworker says s/he doesn’t remember that being the agreement and closes the door. What do you do?
18	You have a good friend or relative who is determined to enter a competition to do something for which s/he totally has no talent. For years, you and so many others have tried to tell this person that this particular thing just isn’t his/her “cup of tea,” but s/he is absolutely determined to enter a competition that will expose him/her to the criticism of thousands of people. What do you do?
21	Social media has truly changed the way we interact and engage. Facebook, in particular, has reconnected us with people we haven’t seen and/or heard from in years. With that in mind, what has been your most amazing reconnection through Facebook or any other social media tool that you’ve used?
22	Children learn to speak based on what they hear people saying around them. It’s one of the reasons a parent and/or parents will hire a caregiver who speaks a different language, so the child(ren) can be fluent in his/her/their native tongue and another almost from birth. With that in mind, at what age should we stop using “baby talk” with children?
23	If it would help you understand the opposite gender better, would you be willing to switch from being a woman to a man or a man to a woman for a week to gain this knowledge?
24	There are good dates and bad dates. Of course, we all would prefer the good dates. With that in mind, what was the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you on a date?
25	There are 24, whole hours in one day, and it seems we hardly ever have enough time for all the things we’d like to accomplish. With that in mind, what is ONE (and only one) thing for which you’d like to have more time in your day?
28	A very attractive, single man goes into a bar alone to have a couple of drinks. While he’s there, he’s approached by a beautiful young lady, and they strike up a conversation. To the man, the lady looks too young to be in the bar, so he makes it a point to ask her age. She tells him she’s 22, and she even pulls out a driver’s license that shows the same information along with a photo that looks exactly like her. Still a little skeptical, the man begins asking the young lady questions that he’s sure someone under 18 wouldn’t know. The young lady is on point and responds to all his questions correctly without missing a beat. Even with this, something in the back of his mind and the pit of his stomach is telling him the young lady isn’t as old as she claims. He, however, doesn’t see the harm in keeping company with her while he’s in the bar enjoying his drinks. He notes that she is only drinking club soda and asks her why. She tells him that she drove to the bar and doesn’t want to take the chance of being pulled over for drinking and driving. He thinks to himself that the young lady is at least responsible. After his second and last drink the man tells the young lady it’s time for him to get home, and the two of them leave the bar together. He walks the young lady to her car, and she tells him she enjoyed his company and asks him if she can follow him home for a cup of coffee. Although his gut is telling him she may be underage, his mind is rationalizing that he’s being over cautious. What should he do?
29	Two coworkers, we’ll call them Andrea Vincent and Brian Paulson, are both up for the same promotion. So far, both employees have been performing at the same outstanding caliber of productivity. Their supervisor decides to have each of them do a 5-minute presentation on the company’s future success to determine who will get the promotion. They have two weeks to prepare. Even though Andrea and Brian are neck and neck for the same promotion, Andrea is aware that Brian and her supervisor are friends from college, and they spend a lot of time together during off hours playing golf, hiking and attending sporting events. Although Andrea hasn’t witnessed her supervisor showing favoritism to Brian, she’s concerned nonetheless. While the employees are preparing to give their presentations, Andrea receives a startling email that was sent to her by mistake. It just so happens that the president of the company is named Andrew Vincent (no relation), and the person who was trying to email him inadvertently sent the information to Andrea. What’s startling about the email is that the information, if included in her presentation, will give Andrea the exact boost she needs to literally guarantee her the promotion over Brian Paulson. What should she do?
30	Parents of a five-year-old are in a heated debate about how to handle an on-going situation with their daughter. Since birth, Dad has enjoyed sharing a bath with his baby girl. He liked the idea of being able to hold her and keep a watchful eye on her so that she didn’t slip in the water and drown. Mom was pleased to see Dad taking such an active role in the care of their daughter and sometimes all three would bathe together. It was fun family time. About the age of three, Mom begin dropping the bug in Dad’s ear that he was going to have to stop bathing with their daughter next year because the little girl would be at the age where she would be curious about “boy parts” and “girl parts.” Dad scoffed and thought it was absurd to think he’d have to stop sharing this special bonding time in the bubbles with his daughter. Age four came and went and still Dad and daughter were sharing a bath. Mom would hear them sharing their day and Dad would take this time to lovingly correct his daughter about different things that needed to be addressed. Still, Mom thinks it’s time for father and daughter to stop the shared baths. What do you think?

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