The Kitchen Table Session workbook — three sample pages fanned out showing two fill-in worksheets and the quick reference page. 24 pages, US Letter.

The Kitchen Table Session — How to Sit Down With Your Parents Once and Write Down Where Everything Is

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The Kitchen Table Session workbook — three sample pages fanned out showing two fill-in worksheets and the quick reference page. 24 pages, US Letter.
  • The Kitchen Table Session workbook — three sample pages fanned out showing two fill-in worksheets and the quick reference page. 24 pages, US Letter.
  • The Kitchen Table Session — How to Sit Down With Your Parents Once and Write Down Where Everything Is
  • The whole session on one page — four rings, worked from the outside in
  • Worksheet 1 — the Opening Plan, including the sentence you will actually say
  • Worksheet 3 — the People List: doctor, lawyer, accountant, the neighbor with a key
  • The Kitchen Table Session workbook — three sample pages fanned out showing two fill-in worksheets and the quick reference page. 24 pages, US Letter.
  • The Kitchen Table Session — How to Sit Down With Your Parents Once and Write Down Where Everything Is
  • The whole session on one page — four rings, worked from the outside in
  • Worksheet 1 — the Opening Plan, including the sentence you will actually say
  • Worksheet 3 — the People List: doctor, lawyer, accountant, the neighbor with a key
The Kitchen Table Session — How to Sit Down With Your Parents Once and Write Down Where Everything Is

The Kitchen Table Session — How to Sit Down With Your Parents Once and Write Down Where Everything Is

$11.99

You have four days at your parents' house and you know this conversation is overdue.

You also know precisely how it goes. You open with something careful about "the future," your mom says don't be morbid, your dad suddenly remembers something urgent in the garage, and somebody gets up to make coffee. Nobody has been rude. Nothing has been said. Everyone is relieved. See you at Thanksgiving.

So do not have that conversation. Have a much smaller one instead: if you two were in the hospital for a week, I would have no idea where anything is. Can you help me write it down? It is true, it is specific, it is about a Tuesday and not about mortality, and nobody can call it morbid.

The Kitchen Table Session is one sitting — about ninety minutes, at a table, with a pen and ideally something baked. It works from the house inward: where the papers live, who already knows things, which bank, and only then what they actually want. By the time you reach the hard part, you have been having a perfectly nice afternoon for an hour, and the hard part turns out to be two questions long.

Not sure yet? Read five pages free — the cover, the whole method on one page, the first step, and one complete fill-in worksheet. No payment, no card.

What is inside

  • 24 pages, eight fill-in worksheets, designed to be filled in with your parents rather than at them
  • Three scripted openings, sorted by which parent you were issued — the one who deflects with a joke, the one who gets defensive, and the one who says don't worry about it in a tone that ends the discussion
  • The four corners: where the documents, the keys and the locked things physically are
  • The people list — doctor, lawyer, accountant, insurance agent, and the neighbor who has a key and knows more than all of them
  • The money map: which institutions, never how much. Nobody is asking about balances
  • The household operating manual, filled in while walking around the house, because only your father knows about the water shutoff
  • What they want, in their own words, read back to them so you know you got it right
  • Ten questions you will be glad you asked, plus pages for labeling the photographs nobody else on earth can identify

Who it is for

The adult kid who has been meaning to do this for two years and has a small pit in their stomach about it. Best done at a holiday visit, when you are there anyway and there is a dead hour in the afternoon.

Format

Instant PDF download. US Letter, made to be printed and written on by hand. Print two copies — one for them, one for you, and no arguments later about where the copy went.

Refunds

Instant download, so all sales are final. If the file will not open or it is not what was described, email us and we will fix it or refund you. We are not going to be weird about it.

Please note

This book records a conversation. It is not legal, financial or medical advice, it is not a will or any other legal instrument, and nothing written in it binds anybody to anything. It asks only where things are and what your parents said — never balances, never passwords, never a decision about care or money.

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