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

If your child is drawing what, without a doubt, looks like a house, rather than asking, "Is that a house?" which could stifle their creativity, try, "Can you tell me about your drawing?" This gives your child an opportunity to share his unique train of thought, and you may find that even though his drawing looks like a house to your conventional, adult eye, to him, it might be something completely different and something that you never could have guessed yourself.