Stumbled on a brilliant way to get DD to tell me about school

[Simkin]

DD (8) is one of those kids who will say 'stuff' when you ask her about what she did that day and 'people' when you ask who she played with.

She doesn't respond well to questions like 'what was the best thing...' etc either. She's recently started a new school and I really want to know how it's going!

We watched 'Freaky Friday' on Saturday night - the 2005 version bodyswap film where the mum and daughter swap places.

Afterwards DD started to warn me about what I should look out for if we ended up in a bodyswap and she told me loads about which friends to play with, who to watch out for etc. I was able to string it along for ages and found out more than she's ever told me about school. So I thought I would share this discovery in case it would help similarly afflicted parents!

I love the freaky Friday idea, I might try that.

I do tell me 3 good, 3 bad, even 13 year old ds will join in, even if for both of them the positives are just things like playing football at lunch or meatballs being on the menu! Sometimes I get a more in depth answer.

That's so cool! My DD is a bit younger but we are already trying to work out how to get her to talk to us!