Author Shana Noyes offers a weighty but lighthearted parenting guide with her unusual book,Get to Know Your Kid ($17). We talked to Shana, a mother of two, or recently and she shared her three must-request questions to help parents learn more approximately their children and chronicle their growth. Shana recommends probing your children for answers when they wiggle off your questions with short rebuttals and encouraging chatter and conversation daily. This includes asking the simple "What was the best part of your day today?" question - daily.
Shana shared,"Research shows that recounting kindly experiences imprints them on our minds and makes us happier people in general. You may not actually write down an answer every day, but just asking is what's important. Asking this question repeatedly - perhaps at the dinner table or when tucking your child into bed at night - creates a routine in your child's intellect and ideally becomes a habit that he or she will continue throughout his or her whole life. Life is a series of moments, and this question is a way to explain your children how to isolate moments in their day and so that they learn to recognize and appreciate living in the moment."We want to know: what questions do you request your children every day,and how enjoy their answers changed over time?Related Stories:
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