How to get children to tell us their day

If I had to synthesize a day in my children's school, I am convinced that I can do it with the most appropriate term: it is "the school of La Nada". Why every time I ask them how it has gone, I get a laconic "good" barely intelligible. And if I try to specify what they have done on that day, everything is summarized in a "nothing" that falls from his lips with apathy. Holy Virgin! From nine to five, while I was carrying out tons of work that is impossible to summarize, they have not done anything at all? Obviously, my excessive desire to know what they have done is not born that I doubt that they have worked hard under the watchful eye of extraordinary teachers. What happens is that as a mother I'm a bit frustrated with that not knowing anything at all of what happens in the vast majority of my children's day. And it is enough to make an account of the old woman to discover that if we subtract the hours of sleep and school, we spend with them only four or five hours a day. And, unfortunately, a lot of the time we dedicate it to give orders like "duck," "do your homework" or "pick up your room." Seen like that, it seems horrible. Because I think dinner time is so important. And the hour should be closer to "the time" than to "the ten minutes". In my case it is simple because one of my children is so slow eating that sometimes the thing goes away until "an hour and a half". Jokes aside, for a while sitting around the table It is the perfect time to fill those "good" and those "nothing" of substantial content. I here apply strictly journalistic criteria to my work as a mother and make the best possible match to what I have learned from the art of interviewing. The first premise for the thing to work is not to ask in generic. If I asked the President of the Government today something as open as "How's Catalonia going?", He would answer with an answer as open as the question posed. If I ask you about the current legislation, both in the Magna Carta and in the regulations of the Senate, which will apply in this case, it will be extended for hours with the erudition that adorns it and its extensive knowledge in the matter. It happens to all of us: imprecision makes the answer difficult. To the children even more, because our day of work is very similar to itself in each hour and in each day, but its class of "mates" has very little to do with that of "educa" and even less with the "second". playground". So a "How's the school?" it deserves the answer that we have earned: "Good", without more. We take advantage of dinners to ask in a much more concise way: "How did you get the math exercises you did yesterday?" "Has your friend Fulanita, who had a fever, returned to school?" "What song did you choose at the end for the Christmas performance?" There are more tricks. For example, children are very shy to talk about themselves but have no complex in talking about others. And through all the gossip of the neighbor, we learn about the reality of the next ... Another trick: each brother has to think about the best and the worst that has happened to him in the day. The first will be difficult to start talking, but because of that phenomenon of natural competition between brothers, in a few minutes we will have everyone anxious to tell us. And suddenly, the school will go from being "nothing" to practically everything. It may interest you: - Keys to connect with your children

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