The Art of Children's Conversation

My kids (age 5) love the questions. And it keeps them at the dinner or lunch table. One asks for "the question game" every day. But if I ask the same one two days in a row, they aren't interested in answering it again. So I can't say how long it will be useful.The questions vary from appropriate for 4 or 5 year olds to much older children. I handle this by editing before I speak. If you want it to spark CONVERSATION, you'll have to lead that yourself. It is simply questions - the conversation work you'll have to do yourself. Mine are so interested in more questions, the conversations are pretty short...lol.I DO like it and I think you might want to try it if your kids like to get up 10 times or more during dinner.

Don't be fooled by the fancy name: this is nothing more than a list of questions. There is nothing about this game that helps 'teach' conversation. I purchased this game as a Speech Therapist to use with my students. I would not purchase it again, as I have many other lists of (better) questions. Here are some examples of the questions: 1. Have you ever looked after a sick animal or bird. (Yes/No question. Does not encourage further conversation.) 2, What do you do if it is hard to go to sleep? 3. What do you find difficult to speak to adults about? 4. Do you have a nickname? Do you like it? (again, Yes/No questions) 5. What is the most important difference between boys and girls? (REALLY?! Ask this to a kid?!) 6. Which smell do you like? 7. Do you have chores and do you do them without being reminded? (Yes/No.) 8. Your favorite song? (poor question grammar!) 9. The first song you learned to sing? (Poor question grammar!) 10. Work and Play. What do you think is the difference?11. Which do you get more of, praise or criticism? For this game: Criticism. It disobeys the first rule of getting kids to talk: ask OPEN-ENDED questions, not questions that can be answered with yes or no. It does not teach proper question grammar, appropriate question topics (some topics are a bit strange!), or how to ask follow-up questions. In my professional opinion, these are items that need to be addressed when teaching the 'art' of conversation.

These are good. Not a game at all though. Just cards with two questions to chose from as each person draws a card. Some interesting, some super easy (what's your favorite color?), some can provide interesting conversations. We use it at dinner time. Each of us draws a card and asks everyone else answers each question. For a family of 5 (plus toddler) it takes about 10 minutes to each do a card.

We played this at Christmas with the whole family - the questions might seem aimed at children, but you should have seen the thoughtful adult faces when everyone had to give "Your best time ever". And when my son-in-law misread a question and asked "Can you dress yourself?" we all laughed until we cried. Each card has a choice of 3 questions, so there is always something that fits the players. People came and went as kids or activities needed attention with no problem. We all learned a few things about each other and possibly ourselves.

Such a simple concept, easy to play for as long or as short as you like, and the kids love answering the questions.My daughter is sometimes aloof, and it isn't easy to find activities that she is enthusiastic about doing with me. We sat down on the floor with these cards, and she lit up while sharing her answers, and We had fun laughing together about some of them. It was such an easy thing to do to create a moment of connection.

I ordered this conversation game and tried it out on my seven year old granddaughter. She loved playing it with me. Right away she said it could help involve her brother who has Aspergers Syndrome. I gave the game to her and her family. If it works and also helps her brothers self esteem, what more can you ask of a game? I plan to buy two more sets. One to have when the kids come over and one to hold as a gift.

Small, portable and GREAT for social skills work as well as just to get a conversation going in a room full (or car full) of introverts. :)

I love these cards, we use them at dinnertime to get my daughter talking (she has her head down looking at a computer most of the time). Also I use them to start conversations with my English as a second language homestay guests. I only wish their were French/German versions so I could practice my languages!

Really good game. Like the fact that it's just cards so you can take it anywhere and can also use the cards as discussion topics during meal times. We played it as a family (children aged 12 and 9) and found that playing by the exact rules was a bit too formal for us as the conversation wasn't very natural. However, using the cards to create conversation starters has led to some interesting conversations.

Great game used for teaching communication with SEN children.

Lovely game to promote conversation

This product had the whole family communicating well with each other with much laughter. The grand children, aged 10, 9 and 5 had a wonderful time, thinking about the answers to the questions. We found that when we went out (without the cards) they still carried on conversing - making up their own questions. An excellent game.

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