{"id":8875,"date":"2020-01-21T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2020-01-21T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:22:00","slug":"50-questions-to-ask-your-kids-instead-of-asking-how-was-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/2020\/01\/21\/50-questions-to-ask-your-kids-instead-of-asking-how-was-your-day\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Questions To Ask Your Kids Instead Of Asking \u201cHow Was Your Day\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herviewfromhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shutterstock_674546629.jpg\" alt=\"50 Questions To Ask Your Kids Instead Of Asking &quot;How Was Your Day&quot; www.herviewfromhome.com\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/herviewfromhome.com\/author\/leslie\/\">BY LESLIE MEANS<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We asked our Her View From Home writers to share some of their favorite conversation starters with their kids. These are especially great after a long school day when your babies don\u2019t want to chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s some of their favorites!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What made you smile today?<\/li><li>Can you tell me an example of kindness you saw\/showed?&nbsp;<\/li><li>Was there an example of unkindness? How did you respond?<\/li><li>Does everyone have a friend at recess?<\/li><li>What was the book about that your teacher read?<\/li><li>What\u2019s the word of the week?<\/li><li>Did anyone do anything silly to make you laugh?<\/li><li>Did anyone cry?<\/li><li>What did you do that was creative?<\/li><li>What is the most popular game at recess?<\/li><li>What was the best thing that happened today?<\/li><li>Did you help anyone today?<\/li><li>Did you tell anyone \u201cthank you?\u201d<\/li><li>Who did you sit with at lunch?<\/li><li>What made you laugh?<\/li><li>Did you learn something you didn\u2019t understand?<\/li><li>Who inspired you today?<\/li><li>What was the peak and the pit?<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/herviewfromhome.com\/the-bedtime-hoops-4-important-questions-to-ask-your-kids-every-night\/\">What was your least favorite part of the day?<\/a><\/li><li>Was anyone in your class gone today?<\/li><li>Did you ever feel unsafe?<\/li><li>What is something you heard that surprised you?<\/li><li>What is something you saw that made you think?<\/li><li>Who did you play with today?<\/li><li>Tell me something you know today that you didn\u2019t know yesterday.<\/li><li>What is something that challenged you?<\/li><li>How did someone fill your bucket today? Whose bucket did you fill?<\/li><li>Did you like your lunch?<\/li><li>Rate your day on a scale from 1-10.<\/li><li>Did anyone get in trouble today?<\/li><li>How were you brave today?<\/li><li>What questions did you ask at school today?<\/li><li>Tell us your top two things from the day (before you can be excused from the dinner table!).&nbsp;<\/li><li>What are you looking forward to tomorrow?<\/li><li>What are you reading?<\/li><li>What was the hardest rule to follow today?<\/li><li>Teach me something I don\u2019t know.<\/li><li>If you could change one thing about your day, what would it be?<\/li><li>(For older kids):&nbsp; Do you feel prepared for your history test?\u201d or, \u201cIs there anything on your mind that you\u2019d like to talk about?\u201d (In my opinion, the key is not only the way a question is phrased, but responding in a supportive way.)<\/li><li>Who did you share your snacks with at lunch?<\/li><li>What made your teacher smile? What made her frown?<\/li><li>What kind of person were you today?<\/li><li>What made you feel happy?&nbsp;<\/li><li>What made you feel proud?<\/li><li>What made you feel loved?<\/li><li>Did you learn any new words today?<\/li><li>What do you hope to do before school is out for the year?<\/li><li>If you could switch seats with anyone in class, who would it be? And why?<\/li><li>What is your least favorite part of the school building? And favorite?<\/li><li>If you switched places with your teacher tomorrow, what would you teach the class?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LESLIE MEANS We asked our Her View From Home writers to share some of their favorite conversation starters with their kids. These are especially great after a long school day when your babies don\u2019t want to chat. Here\u2019s some of their favorites!&nbsp; What made you smile today? Can you tell me an example of <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/2020\/01\/21\/50-questions-to-ask-your-kids-instead-of-asking-how-was-your-day\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/rawsonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}