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.
The notion that anything is possible.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗
A sense of what really matters.
More than I can, sadly. I led the softest of lives in the softest of times, and my daughter will face sterner challenges.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
The best possible understanding of who they are and where they came from.
Funny, loyal, genuine.
A Porsche 911 Turbo.
“Do you know what your problem is?” It was a dear friend of mine. They were referring to the fact that I’m impatient.
I last shed a tear when my nephew, who is under 10, announced that he was learning the trombone. When I was about the same age and wanted to learn the trumpet, a music teacher said: “The trumpet isn’t for you. You’ve got too-thick lips.”
Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.
John McCarthy, the journalist who was held captive for five years in Beirut. I’ve met him and he was so full of peace, humility and forgiveness – it was inspiring.
Ali Abbasi, Katie Melua, Keir Starmer, Juliet Stevenson, Marcus Mumford, Zack Polanski
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