15 questions to ask a 3-year-old
Three-year-olds answer in a sentence or two, with total confidence and very little regard for facts. Keep questions short and concrete, and expect the answer to wander. The wandering is the good part.
- 1What is your favourite thing to eat?
- 2What does a cat say when it’s happy?
- 3Where does the sun go at night?
- 4What is in your tummy right now?
- 5Who is your best friend?
- 6What makes you laugh?
- 7What are you scared of?
- 8If you were an animal, what would you be?
- 9What is the biggest thing in the whole world?
- 10What do you dream about?
- 11How old am I?
- 12What do you think my job is?
- 13What would you do if you were a giant?
- 14What colour is happy?
- 15What do you want to be when you’re big?
How to get real answers
- One or two questions, not the whole list. It’s a conversation, not an interview.
- Ask side by side: in the car, at bath time, on a walk, at bedtime.
- Don’t correct the answer. You’re collecting how they think, not checking it.
- Write it down in their exact words, with their age. Ask the same question next year and compare.
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Keep what they answer, with their age on it.
Cuote keeps the funny things your kids say, and asks you a question like these on quiet evenings.
