There are questions you can ask your children that will engage them, encourage them, and prompt great conversations.

What are those? Well, hang on. I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Dan Aguirreta who's in charge of our parenting

department. Danny, questions. You're so good at these things. You are, I mean, you just

roll so naturally.

What's an effective question that you've used in your own home?

One of them is how well do you think I know you?

Especially for my kids, how well do you think I know you?

Is there something I need to know about to you that I just maybe have missed or that you want to share with me?

And another one is how are we doing? How do you think we're doing together?

It's a good one relationally and sometimes things are brought up.

And sometimes I'll just say, hey, we're doing great.

What do you think is going so well?

And just the follow-up questions are so important in the open-ended because it shows you're listening

and that it wasn't just a question to ask a question fill time. There's a purpose to it. There's somewhere

you're wanting to go with them and many times your

child will follow but if it's just a random question that has no purpose

they'll get tired of those. Yeah and don't don't have a trap at the end of the questions.

Right. In other words, you're not leading them towards a trap.

Oh, yeah, you know, there is something you aren't telling me and so yeah, don't do that.

Let's go ahead and hear from Dr. Kathy Cook. She is a champion for kids. She joined

focus president Jim Daly and offered some effective questions you can ask your

child. Kathy you identify three questions you can ask to kind of help you identify where your child's

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