"How was your day?"

"Fine."

How was school?"

"Fine."

Want to end the dinner time silence and have meaningful conversations with your child?

Are you tired of asking the same questions - and getting the same answers - every day?

Do you want to have meaningful conversations with your child, but don't know where to start?

We all know family meals are a key to positive outcomes in children, but do they get the benefit if we just sit in silence?

Do you want to start conversations that tell you more about how your child thinks (and scaffolds their learning!) but don't want it to be 'awkward'?

Do you wish your child would just tell you about their day?

These conversation starter cards will help you to:

Overcome dinnertime silence

Initiate conversations with your child that tell you more about their brain development and thinking (watch their answers shift over time!)

Set the tone for the meal, so once you've answered the questions your child will more willingly engage in conversation about their day

The questions are designed so anyone can answer them, from preschooler to grandparent.  Everyone brings their unique perspective!

The full set of 24 cards is available for purchase, but you can download a starter set of six questions for FREE!

jen holding carys

Hi! I'm Jen (and that's Carys)

I never saw myself as a mother.  I don’t really ‘do’ nurturing – at least not of things that have a lot of needs and can’t be reasoned with.  In hindsight, I spent rather too much time on my birth plan, and not nearly enough time thinking about what the time after the birth might be like.

When Carys was about four months old I was actually starting to think about discipline (a bit early, I know…).  I didn’t know how I was going to be a parent whose kid didn’t walk all over them without being a parent who always said “no.”

A couple of weeks after that, some friends were visiting with their toddler son.  We were in the living room and he went running down our hallway to our bedroom.  His Mom called after him: “Jack, please don’t go in there – it’s private.  You can go in the nursery or come back to the living room.”

Jack stopped on the threshold of our bedroom, peeked in, and then ran back to the living room.

“How did you do that?” I said.

The answer launched my journey as a parent: toward a Master's in Psychology (focused on Child Development), followed by another in Education, all underpinned by principles of respectful parenting.

Then I launched a podcast to share what I learned with others (I'll send you updates when I release new episodes after you download the Conversation Starters).