15 questions to ask a 6-year-old
Six is when the world gets bigger: reading, friendships with rules, a sense of fair and unfair. Questions about how things work, and about what’s fair, get long and serious answers.
- 1What is something that isn’t fair?
- 2If you were in charge of school, what would you change?
- 3What is the best book you’ve heard or read?
- 4What would you buy with a big bag of money?
- 5How do you think birds know where to fly?
- 6What is a secret you can tell me?
- 7What do you like most about our family?
- 8What would a perfect Saturday look like?
- 9What is something you used to be scared of but aren’t now?
- 10If animals could talk, which one would be the rudest?
- 11What do you want to learn how to do?
- 12What makes a person kind?
- 13If you could ask the whole world one question, what would it be?
- 14What would you invent to make life easier?
- 15What did you do today that you’re proud of?
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.
