What is fascinating about your post is we ask our kids to tell us about their day every night at the dinner table and they stay silent or just say “It was ok.”
Just another point of view about that conundrum that is raising kids.
After I got older I realized that Dad’s job was very stressful and eating dinner was his release from his day. It ruined eating at the table for me though but I do understand. Eating alone now does it for me.
We weren’t allowed to talk during the 6:00 news or a football game either. LOL We spent a lot of time playing outside like kids should. 😁 I’m just saying the it shaped the way I do things now. I had to sit at the table with my daughter to make her eat. LOL She sat there until she did but we did talk like normal people do.
What is fascinating about your post is we ask our kids to tell us about their day every night at the dinner table and they stay silent or just say “It was ok.”
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Ask them open ended ? questions. Is that the term I want? Questions like, what did you do when I dropped you off? What did you do at the first recess? Who did you play with in the morning? Who did you sit with at lunch today? What did you do after lunch? Did you get asked any math questions? A lot of times, those questions get them talking.
You get a lot of information that way. Like who they are playing with. Once my son said, “We didn’t get recess.” And I was like hmmmm... is he lying? Nope, he was telling the truth, so I went in to the class and reminded Mr Stupid Teacher that that was illegal to take recess away. And it was just one more reason for me to home school. So, I did.
Petey
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Asking kids questions such as, “What did you learn in school today?” rarely gets an answer. You have to be more specific. Kids’ brains don’t work like ours.
Better to ask something like, “Did you and (child’s best friend) play/work on X today?