10 Questions To Ask Your Child About Their School Day

Have you been asking your child everyday “how was school?” and getting the response “good” or “I can’t remember”?

Here are ten great questions to ask your child which will get them talking and give you more insight into their day.

What was the best and worst part of your day?
What did you do in Science today (art, music etc.)?
What subject did you enjoy the most today? Why?
Who made you smile today?
What was the funniest thing that happened today?
Did you find anything hard today?
What games did you play at lunch/recess?
What did you learn today?
What’s the nicest thing you did for someone today?
What are looking forward to tomorrow?

All of these questions are great conversation starters to help give you more information about your child’s day. Don’t ask every question everyday, just pick one or two and make sure you lead by example and get them to ask you questions too.

A cute little way to get the family involved is to place all of the above questions into a box and ask everyone to pick one or two at dinner time, they then get to share the answer with everyone.

How do you get your kids sharing? Any tips? SHARE with us in the comments below.

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113 Comments

- - Ellen said
  - 18 Oct 2017
    4:36 am
Great questions for primary school kids. Good to focus on open questions indeed !

- - mom104749 said
  - 17 Oct 2017
    8:29 pm
Find the perfect time to ask them- straight after school they probably won’t let you know. I wait til bedtime when my son is relaxed and can listen to what I’m asking!

- - mom64736 said
  - 17 Oct 2017
    8:27 pm
We do this at the dinner table. Instead of what happened in their day they tell me things like what was the best thing. What was the most challenging. etc. Great idea as it is a casual chat.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 17 Oct 2017
    7:20 pm
Some fantastic tips here, some of them I already ask my kids.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 17 Oct 2017
    7:19 pm
some fantastic tips here

- - mom57619 said
  - 16 Feb 2017
    11:05 pm
Some great questions to ask – this year my twins are in separate classes and I am able to learn a lot as they compare their days in the back of the car as we drive home!
- rachel1970 replied
  
  17 Oct 2017 , 7:17 pm
  this is the first year my twins are in separate classes too. Hard times for us parents but they are coping very well and do ‘hang out’ at lunch and recess times. Mine are in grade 3.
- - jammyjams said
  - 03 Feb 2017
    9:47 am
We always ask what was the best thing about your day at dinner think I am going to have add some of these questions to the mix. Thanks

- - missliss89 said
  - 16 Jan 2017
    10:14 am
Such great questions to ask.
i found my son likes to sit in silence for the first 5 min of the drive. his brain is so over worked he just wants that time to chill. then he will start talking and we have a wonderful chat.

i truly treasure my time in the car to talk to he kids as i work nights. so its special to hear about their day and the things they liked and didn’t like

- - curlytops said
  - 08 Jan 2017
    2:18 pm
yes good questions to promote conversation.

- - mom112217 said
  - 06 Jan 2017
    9:31 pm
A great article to connect with your kids!

- - ella12 said
  - 06 Sep 2016
    2:57 pm
I think it is important generally to be involved and touch base with them.

- - nutter13 said
  - 02 Jul 2016
    6:58 am
I love these. I do ask a few but I will be using all of these from now on. I love hearing about my kids days but they just say it was good but they dont elaborate.

- - mom153507 said
  - 30 Apr 2016
    11:15 pm
There are some really great questions here to get kids to open up a bit.
I’d like to try some of these with my tween sister who is very difficult to communicate with at the moment.
There are also some great questions to ask even for the younger ones who are still at home so they don’t feel excluded.
Thanks for sharing.

- - Scmboard said
  - 28 Apr 2016
    10:17 am
Thanks for sharing!

- - jabelle said
  - 05 Apr 2016
    11:42 am
This is a great reference. Some days it’s so hard to get info out of the kids.

- - mom165596 said
  - 22 Mar 2016
    12:24 pm
A fabulous list – I ask questions as we walk up from the bus stop (farm) to keep them from whinging because I didn’t drive.

- - mom57665 said
  - 10 Mar 2016
    5:09 pm
Naw I can’t wait to ask my baby how he’s school days are 🙂

- - rovermum said
  - 07 Mar 2016
    4:05 pm
I have a teenage son who actually loves to tell me all about his day… in great detail. I have to ask for the short version! I know I’m lucky. A teenager who talks. So I lap it up while I can.

- - aprilb1 said
  - 06 Mar 2016
    5:35 pm
Great article i tend to ask my niece how was school and all i get in response is ‘good’ lol i will have to ask some of these

- - Some_Toss said
  - 06 Mar 2016
    12:28 am
Good advice, thanks!