7 Reasons You Should Start Asking Your Children Open-Ended Questions

If your child is working through some kind of issue — say a wheel fell off their favorite toy car and they’re frustrated — asking them an open-ended question like, "How do you think we can fix your car?" will help kiddos to come up with their own answers and solutions to the problem. If we as parents feed our children a question like, “Should we reattach the wheel to it?” we eliminate the cognitive processes necessary to solve problems, which isn’t helping them to develop problem-solving skills.