35 different ways to ask your child - ‘How was your day?’

As a parent/carer, or as someone who works with children on a regular basis, it can be hard not to fall into the same habits of conversation each day. Asking your child about his/her day at school is one moment in which we can easily default to this familiar question:

Adult: “How was your day?”

Child: “Good.”

End of conversation.

Attached are some really simple ways that you may find helpful to encourage your child to share a little more with you. This is a list of 35 different ways in which you can ask “How was your day?”
We hope that you may find these ideas useful in prompting discussion with your child about the school day and his/her learning.