Talking to your children

Talking to your children

Sometimes it may feel hard to start conversations with your children, particularly if you have not had contact for a period of time. 

If your child often replies with things like ‘I’m good’ ‘I don’t know’ ‘I don’t remember’ it could be that the questions you are asking are too broad and overwhelming for your child like the ones below. 
  1. How are you?
  2. What would you like to do?
  3. Anything you want to talk about?

Questions you could try instead?
  1. Who did you play with at lunch time
  2. Who did you eat your lunch with?
  3. What did you find fun at school today?
  4. What made you laugh today?
  5. What games did you play?
  6. What was something new that you did?
  7. Did you help anyone today?
  8. Did you like your lunch? What was it?
  9. What will you be doing tomorrow?

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