33 Questions To Ask Your Kids After School That Will Give You Better Insight Into Their Day At School!
During the school year, school is like our kid’s second home, they spend a pretty good amount of time there.
And what happens at school can affect how our kids behave at home, that’s why it’s important to know or at least have a good idea of what’s going on at school.
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Like every parent, I am sure you would like to find ways to get a better idea of what’s going on at your child’s school. Well, asking your child specific questions can help to do just that. Here are some questions to ask your kids after school to get a better description of what happened in school that day.
When my daughter first started going to school, I would ask her “How was school?” and she would normally tell me about her day, but I find that I get a more accurate description of her day when I ask more specific questions.
When I pick her up from school now, I do a couple of things, I hug and kiss her, and when we get to the car I hand her a snack, she buckles up and we start chatting about her day.
The ride home is about 15 minutes long. Every day I choose 2-3 questions to ask her as a conversation starter about her day at school. Sometimes, she’s tired and doesn’t feel like talking much but at least I get the information I need from the 2-3 questions I ask her. And of course, depending on the day, the questions lead to other questions, which is even better.
You too can use these questions as conversation starters with your kids after school!
Here 33 Insightful Questions to Ask Your Kids After School
- Was today a good day or a bad day?
- What was the best thing that happened today?
- What was your least favorite part of the day?
- What was the most difficult rule to follow today?
- What’s one way you showed kindness today?
- What questions did you ask at school today?
- What is something that challenged you today?
- Did you help anyone today?
- What’s one new thing you learned today?
- What made you laugh or smile today?
- Who did you play with the most at recess?
- What kind of games did you play during recess?
- What’s one thing you did to help someone today?
- Did anybody get in trouble today?
- What book did your teacher read at circle time today? What was the book about?
- Who did you sit with at lunch?
- Did you like your lunch?
- Did anyone do anything nice for you today?
- Did you do anything nice for anyone today?
- What’s the word of the week?
- Did anyone cry today?
- Was anyone missing from your class today?
- Did anyone go to the nurse’s office today?
- Did anyone get in trouble today?
- What was the nicest thing you did for someone else today?
- How were you brave today?
- What made you feel proud of yourself?
- Did you learn any new words today?
- Did anything make you feel worried at any point today?
- Did anything surprise you today?
- Are you looking forward to doing anything exciting tomorrow?
- What’s one weird thing that happened in your classroom today?
- What’s the worst thing that happened to you today?
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I like this list because i ask my kids so many of these questions to get them to talk! lol
Ok, I want say I LOVE this post, because always great to check with kids after school. Thank you for sharing!
I love these questions. So perfect for the new school year and connecting at the end of the day 🩷
I love these ideas! It’s so hard getting kids to talk about their days sometimes. I love the ideas especially of asking if they did something nice, such a great way of subtly encouraging kids to give back as well.
I’ve asked a bunch of these questions myself. Of course, it gets harder to pry info from them during teen years! A few favorites I would include were, “Anything fun happen today? Anything crazy? Weird?” I find when I start on positive notes, I’m more likely to get a better picture, good and bad. It helps!
These are so helpful for parents to connect with their kids!
THIS! I hated getting “Today was okay” and “I didn’t learn anything”. I started asking what was your favorite part of today? Normally I get recess but then I get an explanation of what he did and tidbits of the rest of the day. Thanks for sharing.
I love this! I’m going to save it so I can use it to ask my kiddos questions after school.
I like these 33 questions about kids. I always asks my kids some questions and they open up to tell me how their day was.
These are some great questions to ask your kids to get the communication rolling. Of course, in some cases, kids don’t really want to answer them! or