Let’s Talk: How and Why to Ask Kids Open-ended Questions

It’s 3pm and you are eagerly waiting in the school pick up line to greet your child. She bounds into the back seat as you greet her with a smile and exuberantly ask, “Did you have a good day?!” Her response is a lack luster, “Yeah.” Or, maybe you’ve rushed home after that last work meeting, stopped to pick up pizza and sit down to dinner to ask your middle schooler, “Did your team win?!” He responds with a mumbled, “No.”

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