Ways to Ask Your Child “How Was
Your Day?”
Parents,
How many times do you ask, “How was your day today?” when you see them after school?
How many times do you get the same response, “It was good” or “It was OK.”. Are you
frustrated because they aren’t communicating with you? You NEED to change the way you
ask the question. Try to ask open ended questions rather than ones which have a “yes” or “no”
answer. We know students have a lot going on during the course of the school day. But, the
problem is that “How Was Your Day?” is NOT a great conversation starter. It stinks when
you get down to it. It’s uninspired, overwhelmingly open ended, and frankly, completely boring.
So as an alternative, here is a list of questions that have your kiddo answering with more than
a single word or grunt.
Questions a kid will answer at the end of a long school day:
1. What did you eat for lunch?
2. Did you catch anyone picking their nose?
3. What games did you play at recess?
4. What was the funniest thing that happened today?
5. Did anyone do anything super nice for you?
6. What was the nicest thing you did for someone else?
7. Who made you smile today?
8. Which one of your teachers would survive a zombie apocalypse?
Why?
9. What new fact did you learn today?
10. Who brought the best food in their lunch today? What was it?
11. What challenged you today?
12. If school were a ride at the fair, which ride would it be? Why?
13. What would you rate your day on a scale of 1 to 10? Why?
14. If one of your classmates could be the teacher for the day who
would you want it to be? Why?
15. If you had the chance to be the teacher tomorrow, what would you
teach the class?
16.Did anyone push your buttons today?
17. Who do you want to make friends with but haven’t yet? Why not?
18. What is your teacher’s most important rule?
19. What is the most popular thing to do at recess?
20. Does your teacher remind you of anyone else you know? How?
21. Tell me something you learned about a friend today.
22. If aliens came to school and beamed up 3 kids, who do you wish they
would take? Why?
23. What is one thing you did today that was helpful?
24. When did you feel most proud of yourself today?
25. What rule was the hardest to follow today?
26. What is one thing you hope to learn before the school year is over?
27. Which person in your class is your exact opposite?
28. Which area of your school is the most fun?
29. Which playground skill do you plan to master this year?
30. Does anyone in your class have a hard time following the rules?
31. Who did the naughtiest thing today? What did they do?
32. Who did the kindest thing? What did they do?
33. Who said the funniest thing today? What did they say?
34. What was the hardest thing you did today?
35. What was the best thing you did today?
36. Who did you play with?
37. Did your teacher do a somersault today? No? Oh, so what did she/he
do?
38. What is the most interesting thing you learned today?
39. If you could change one thing about school, what would you change?
40. Did you help anyone today?
41. Did anyone help you today?
42. Did you get scared today?
43. Who would you like to play with that you didn’t play with?
44. What was your favorite part of the day?
45. What was your least favorite part?
46. Who did you see that you don’t normally see?
47. Who didn’t you see that you do normally see?
48. What was your happiest moment?
49. What was your saddest moment?
50. What is the best and worst thing about your teacher?
51. What is the best and worst thing about your school?
52. What is different about today and a year ago?
53. Who did you sit next to at lunch (or snack)?
54. Did you remember any jokes to tell them?
55. If your class was the crew of a pirate ship, who would do what?
56. If your teacher got attacked by a giant jelly fish who would be in
charge?