10 Ways To Get Your Child Talking About School Without Asking About School
Parents, you can probably relate. You pick you little one up from school and your first question is ‘How was your day’? And all you get is “fine” or worse, the shoulder shrug and “I don’t know”. Here are a 10 suggestions on how to get your child talking about school without asking about school.
How To Get Your Kids Talking About School
Parents, you are on the right track. Communication is the key to parenting really. And you want to open up that dialogue early and often. But what if you just can’t get your child talking about school?
Kids Really Do Want To Talk Just On Their Own Terms
Here is what our source, childrens.com has to say:”Positive attention and connectedness are hallmarks of a good parent-child relationship. Checking in on a daily basis shows your kids you are available for them and interested,” says Stevie Puckett-Perez, Ph.D., a licensed pediatric psychologist at Children’s Health℠ and Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern.”
Try These Suggestions At School Pick Up
Children want to communicate but they want to do it on their terms. So what does that mean? For example kids may be exhausted from their day and need time to decompress. The first question they probably don’t want right away is “how was your day”? The experts suggest these alternatives, a simple “hey there, I’m happy to see you” or “hey sweetheart, I missed you today. Looking forward to a catch up later”. Man, wish I had known these when mine were little.
Here are some great questions directly from our expert source at childrens.com:
- Did you get any compliments today? Did you give any compliments today?
- If you could trade lunches with someone, who would you trade with?
- If you could switch places with someone in your class, who would you switch with?
- Is there anything from your day that you want some help with?
- Was anything annoying?
- What made you smile today?
- What was something funny that happened?
- What was the easiest thing you did today?
- What was the hardest thing you did today?
- What was the most fun today?
- When did you feel most bored?
- When did you feel most wiggly today?
- Who brought the best snack today?
- Who did you play with today?
- Who was kind to you today? Who were you kind to?
