{"id":13586,"date":"2018-09-14T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyyouhappyfamily.com\/?p=13586"},"modified":"2023-11-21T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T18:43:59","slug":"questions-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyyouhappyfamily.com\/questions-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Questions to Ask Your Kid Instead of “How Was Your Day?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inside: Stop asking your kid “How was your day?” because it doesn’t work anyway. Here are the best questions for kids that will actually foster a fun conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every evening at the dinner table, my husband and I used to fall into this age-old parenting trap:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How was your day?”
“Fine.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What did you learn today?”
“Nothing.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Who did you play with at recess?”
“No one.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one-word answers don’t foster a good discussion, and they certainly<\/strong> don’t help us reconnect with our kids after a long day apart from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, it’s absolutely essential that we do<\/em> reconnect because if we don’t, we pay the price later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we’re all feeling connected<\/strong>, the kids jump in to help clean up after dinner—without being asked. They pay attention the first time<\/em> we ask them to brush their teeth and get jammies on. When we tuck them into bed, they’re all giggles and smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when we’re all feeling disconnected<\/em>? We get less cooperation, more power struggles, and grumbles and grimaces at bedtime instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready for a solution now?<\/strong> Get these fun printable family conversation starters<\/a> and use them at the end of every day to reconnect with your child.<\/p>\n\n\n