One of the biggest concerns that parents have, after health, is how is your son doing at school. What happens at school and we do not see, is very important for your emotional development of our children.
In addition to what they learn, friendship relationships are established, perhaps bullying, situations of joy and sadness, if they are happy or not ... That is why we must know what questions to ask to know this information first hand.
Common monologues
Every day they come home from school and we ask the same questions: How have you been at school? You have duties? A constant monologue, from which we normally receive little or no information from them. They answer with a "good", "yes" and little else. These are questions too abstract for them.
But are these questions really what you want to know? These questions are more related to learning but have little to do with emotional life of our children, which is really important: if you have friends, if they are happy or what relationship they have with their peers.
25 questions to know how your child is doing in school
After seeing the questions that we usually ask and they do not work, we will go on to see the 25 questions to know how your child is doing in school. They will help us to gather more information and thus achieve a more fluid relationship. They are aimed at elementary school children but can be adapted for older children.
- What's the best thing that happened to you today?
- Has there been something that made you feel bad?
- What have you learned new in school?
- What did you eat in the dining room today?
- Who did you play with at recess?
- Which game did you like the most during recess?
- Did someone do something very nice for you today?
- What made you smile at school today?
- Have you done something nice for any of your classmates?
- Has anyone made you smile?
- What is the biggest nonsense that happened in your class today?
- How would you rate your day in class from 1 to 10 and why?
- Who would you like to be your friend and is not yet?
- Has someone misbehaved with you today?
- If you were the teacher tomorrow, what would you like to teach your classmates?
- Was there something that made you laugh out loud?
- Have you ever felt sad about something someone said or did?
- What teacher rule would you change?
- Which of your classmates would you like to be your new teacher?
- In a zombie apocalypse, which teacher would be saved?
- What have you learned from your friends today?
- Which rule was the most difficult for you to follow today?
- Which person in your class is the opposite of you?
- What do you like the most about your school?
- When have you been most proud of yourself?
Questions to ponder
These questions encourage your child's reflection, in addition to finding out what their life is like in a place where they spend many hours and we are not here to see them. What's more they will improve communication and fluency between the two, which will pave the way of adolescence.
Why remember ... in this life education is important but it is more important to know the emotional life of our children.