100 Genius Questions That Will Help You With Your Children’s Education

There are no people more loved and cared for than our children. At the same time, the pace of life often does not allow us to get to know them in a deeper way or understand what goes on in their heads. But if you can get out of the normal pattern of communication, avoiding cliché phrases like “how was school?” you can learn new and interesting things about your son or daughter. Or maybe about yourself. In these situations, the debates and discussions with them will be much more positive, avoiding those long sermons that they don’t even pay attention to. Try!

O awesome.club searched articles and books to find extraordinary and provocative subjects, capable of holding anyone in a really productive conversation in the family circle.

What events were most interesting today?

What did you discover all day?

What made you smile today?

Who did something fun, funny or ridiculous?

What surprise did you have today?

Did you help anyone?

Did someone do you good?

Did you feel proud of yourself today? Because?

Became sad?

Did you go through something complicated or incomprehensible?

What did you play with your friends?

Who did you have lunch with?

Which of your classmates do you want to be friends with but haven’t been able to?

Who in your class is completely different from you?

Which of your teachers is the nicest? It’s because?

If for one day you became a teacher, what would you teach your classmates?

Got upset about something?

On this day, did anyone do anything unfair?

Did anyone try to confuse you?

Who or what did you disagree with?

If you could live this day again, what would you do differently? Because?

What haven’t you been able to do this week? And what did you get?

If it rained food from the sky, what kind of food would you like it to be?

Which animal would you like to ride: an elephant or a giraffe? Because?

If you could change the names of colors, what would they be called?

If our cat could talk, what do you think he would say?

If you could ask a wild animal a question, what would you ask it?

If you had your own cave, what would you have inside?

For a wall to be indestructible, what must it be made of?

What animal could drive a car well?

What inventions does the world need?

What would happen if there was a time machine?

How would the world be built if people didn’t have money?

If you had a magic wand and had 3 wishes, what would they be?

What are the 5 words that best describe you?

What do you like about yourself? And what don’t you like?

If you could change something about yourself, what would it be?

If, for one day, you could transform into someone else, who would it be?

If you were a superhero, what power would you have?

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?

What sound do you like best?

What do adults not accept in you?

What was the best accomplishment of your life?

What activity makes you happy?

Which birthday party was the best you’ve ever been to?

How to take care of other people?

What makes you tender?

How do you feel when I hug you?

What makes you cry?

What is bothering you?

What scares you?

What would you like more: to fly like a bird or swim like a fish?

If you had a million reais, what would you spend it on?

If you had enough money not to work, would you work or not?

If you could open your own store, what would you sell?

If you were writing a book, what would it be about?

Do you like to give people gifts? With what?

What would your perfect day look like?

What do you know how to do that you could teach others?

What would you like to learn?

What was the happiest moment and the most unhappy moment of your life?

Of all the things you know, what will be the most important in your adult life?

If you could travel back in time and go back 3 years, what advice would you give yourself?

What makes you most proud in life?

Which of your friends is the coolest? Because?

What would you do if someone offended you?

If you grew up right now and became famous, why would you be famous?

How can you help someone today?

If you could spend a day with anyone, who would it be and what would you do?

What makes a person smart?

What do you think other people feel?

Why do we need to go to school?

What will life be like in the future?

What would you change in this world if you could?

Is it easy to be a child? And an adult?

How do you know you’re mature?

Is a child obliged to respect all adults? Because?

Should you always listen to everything your parents say?

Can adults be punished in the same way as children?

Does a person have the right to steal food if he dies of hunger?

Can you always do what you want?

Why do people lie?

Is it possible to say everything you think?

Why do people break up?

Why do people fight when it’s possible to solve everything with tranquility?

Why do adults smile and cry little?

Why do people smoke when they know it’s bad?

What does a good and a bad mood mean?

What are our obligations in old age?

What is the soul and where is it located?

What is love?

How to understand that someone loves you?

Can love be eternal?

What is happiness?

Is it possible to always be happy and never sad?

Is it possible to be happy without spending money?

Why don’t rich people share their money with poor people?

Are all people the same?

Can we say that this world is perfect if there are wars and famine?

How can wars end?

Is there something good in troubles and difficulties?

Should you respond in a rude manner to a person who has acted in the same way, or should you reciprocate with kindness?

Should we be jealous?

Why do we need art?

Who determines what is beautiful and what is not?

Should we accept our physical appearance exactly as it is?

If you had to create a law that everyone would follow, what would it be?

Is it possible to change our destiny or is it already predetermined?

What do we live for?

For an even more complex conversation, you can discuss complicated and even provocative situations with your children, as author Michael Parker proposes in his book “Talk to Your Children About Ethics” (free translation). For example:

“Imagine you invent a time machine. Then enter it and press the ‘go to the past’ button. The machine takes you to the year 1889, and you find, in a tidy room, a beautiful baby. But his gaze falls on a congratulatory letter on a nearby table and, with great terror, he ends up realizing that the child is none other than Adolf Hitler. It is important to remember that you live in the 21st century and you know that he became the culprit for the murder of millions of people during World War II. Suddenly, you hear footsteps on the stairs… Someone is coming up.

It is not possible to take the basket with you in the time machine, as it only fits one passenger. If they find him in the room, it won’t be good. It is also not possible to switch environments, as the time machine is not as accurate. You have 20 seconds for everything.

A. You can throw little Hitler out the window, jump back in the time machine and go back.

B. What are your thoughts when you see little Adolf Hitler?

1. Since he was little, was he already an evil and heartless person? Was he born like this?

2. If he got mean afterwards, what made him go down that path?

3. Would it be fair to punish you for something you haven’t done yet?”

What topic would you like to discuss with your children that you think would be fruitful?