QUESTIONS TO GET OUR CHILDREN TO TALK . . . 

• Tell me about the best part of our day.

• Tell me something you would change about today.

• What was the hardest thing you had to do today?

• Did any of your classmates do anything funny?

• Tell me about what you read in class.

• What's the biggest difference between this year and last year?

• Who did you sit with at lunch?

• Can you show me something you learned (or did) today?

TIPS:

• LISTEN to the entire story. Don't interrupt to ask questions. This turns a conversation into an inquisition for a child.

• Avoid YES or NO questions.

• Know when your child is most open to talk and use that time.

• Don't push answers, they will share, as long as the conversation has been started.

• Follow their lead - talk about whatever they want to talk about. The important stuff will come.