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Get Your Children to Share their Day With You. |
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by Frontier  (August 2006) (rank 21st) |
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Sometimes getting your child to tell you what is going on intheirs lives is like extracting teeth from a fish but I cottoned on to an idea from my days helping out at my local school. Every day our prep class has show and tell where 2 or 3 pupils
get to bring something from home and sharte it with the class. First they have to descrbe it and then they show it to the class after which the other pupils can ask questions. Great for public speaking and self confidence and a great idea for the dinner table.
I decided ti introduce show and tell for our family at dinner as a replacement for the news and countless requests to be quiet becuase we were not listening to our children but to a rehash of news that had been broadcast all day and would bre again leter on that night.
Since we have stated this we get a lot more feedback about our children's days and we have started talking about things we are doing as a family. Nicholas our 4yo loves this time of night as he gets to go first to tell us about his day at kindi. Alexander who is in prep always has some news about school happenings while mum and dad give watered down versions of their day.
It certainly brings order to the dinner table and a focus on the family at one of the few times the whole family is together. 
