What questions to ask your child

By asking non-standard questions, you teach children to ask atypical questions themselves, to look for atypical answers. In order for the child to answer you with pleasure, you need to be able to ask correctly. Here are some questions to help you with this.

For little ones:

1. What do you think will you dream tonight?

2. I hug you, what do you feel?

3. What would your favorite teddy bear say if it could?

4. What sounds do you like?

5. What would you do if you were outside all day?

6. What do you think the animals tell each other?

7. How would your day go if you did whatever you want?

8. Who is your favorite fairytale character?

9. How would you name other family members if you chose names for them?

10. What makes you happy?

11. What would you do right now if you could do anything?

12. How would you like to spend time with the whole family?

For preschoolers:

1. If you open your own store, what will you sell there?

2. Let's come up with new names for each color. What would you call them?

3. What kind of superpower would you like to have?

4. What do you like to share with other people?

5. What happened to you funny or funny today? Why are you smiling?

6. Where would you like to visit? How to get there?

7. If you were preparing a meal for the whole family - what would it be?

8. What would you ask an animal if it could answer?

9. What makes you anxious, fearful and anxious?

10. If you made the rules in the house, what would you require?

For schoolchildren:

1. What do your friends like to do?

2. What do you dream about most often?

3. When you wake up, what do you expect from a new day?

4. What are your favorite memories?

5. How do you understand that you are loved?

6. How do you like to take care of others?

7. If you were writing a book, who and what was it about?

8. What makes you feel great?

9. What makes your friends great?

10. Who would you be if you were performing in a circus?

11. If you were a teacher, what would you teach others?

12. You have been entrusted with a secret, but you do not want to keep it. What will you do?

Questions can be difficult for a child, the wording is important here, which each individual child will understand. Let your child think or not answer at all - this is not an interrogation, but the establishment of a relationship of trust. Don't be afraid to answer "don't know". Over time, the right answer will be found.

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