Sunday, January 15, 2017

How to get your child to talk

Oh, this isn't an educative post on ways to get your kid to talk to you. This is a reflective post on how freaking hard it is! We started doing "3 interesting things that happened today" at dinner time, in order to get more than one word answers to our typical questions, you know the ones! "How was your day?" "How was school?" "What did you do?" And, the 3 interesting things worked well for a while, but after 5.5 months of school, things are starting to repeat themselves. So, I turned to the all-knowing Google for ideas. And, the conversation jar was born.


You can see I am so not a DIYer! I couldn't even glue the top to the jar correctly:


But, I got an empty jar and filled it with 30 questions to begin with:


I looked at many different blogs and sites and picked 30 that I thought would be appropriate for Oliver's age:


I will update on how things go with the conversation jar!