Questions To Ask Your Kids

This week we spoke with Andrea (age 10) about time travel, and how she would change the past. She compares events from further history with COVID-19, who should have the responsibility, and the bad sides of travelling through time. Lots of philosophical and existential musings here! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app...

This week we asked Dan (age 7) if we should be polite to our voice assistant technology.  It was an interesting ethical topic. Dan doesn't think we need to be since Alexa isn't a person, but the more we thought about it, the more worried we became over a future robot uprising if we were impolite to our machines! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, downl...

This week we sat down with Yushan (age 6) to think back over the last week and see how he set a good example for others. After all, we can all be little leaders. Starting with what he did for his sister, he had some great reflection over the things he'd done for others in the last seven days! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from...

This week we asked Mahika (age 10) if there was life on other planets. She firmly believed there wasn't, and we wanted to see if she could argue her reasoning effectively. A good debate with lots of critical thinking required. For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 http://onelink.to/4jbmqh

This week we asked Chayil (age 10) about who his hero was and what makes a good leader. Not only was his answer incredibly sweet, but we also had a great talk about what makes a hero and how we can all be heroes for each other. If you want to have more conversations like this with your own kids, then the KidCoachApp can help. I've written 1,000+ great questions and prompts in there for parent...

This week when speaking to Amaya (age 10) , we wanted to know what superpower she would choose to have. Instead of something like flight or super strength, she wants to talk to trees, and nature around her. Very creative! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 http://onelink.to/4jbmqh

This week, we asked Luan (age 9) a pretty tough question on whether Harry Potter's Professor Snape is a good or bad person. Luan thinks about how much bad a good person can do, and if the things Snape does makes him a goodie or a baddie. For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 http://onelink.to/4jbmqh

This week, we tempted Zahra (age 8) with the idea of having one million pounds. We encouraged her to think creatively and critically about how to use it. It turns out she did not want to buy herself lots of nice things, and you'd be surprised by what she came up with! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉...

This week we spoke with Aila (age 8), asking her to try and estimate how many iPads there were in the whole UK. A good exercise in estimation and analytical thinking.  She started with a rough guess, but with some hard thinking, looking at examples, and exploring new thoughts, she was more than willing to change her answer to fit the facts! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking...

This week we caught up again with Johan (age 8), who loves Harry Potter! We wanted to ask him why he thought Dumbledore made a good headmaster, and what makes him a good leader. Johan considers if power is needed to be a leader, and why people respect the Hogwarts Headmaster. For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store!...

This week we asked Aryan (age 10) what he would do if he could automatically learn anything he wanted to! He immediately set plans into motion for being the next information based superhero, which really threw us for a loop, but his ideas were simply fascinating to listen to. Amazing creative and critical thinking. For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the...

This week we spoke with Mariam (age 9), and asked her what she would do if she was mayor for the week. Put into this leadership position she talked about how she would want to help people on the streets, and how she would want to be inspire others to do better! If you want to have more conversations like this with your own kids, then the KidCoachApp can help. I've written 1,000+ great questio...

This week we spoke to Amaya (age 10) about if we should care what others think about us. This confident young woman gave us some incredible answers about filtering what you should hear, who you should care about, and how to stay strong! If you want to have more conversations like this with your own kids, then the KidCoachApp can help. I've written 1,000+ great questions and prompts in there f...

This week we asked Dan (age 7) about how he would use his love for cycling to reduce traffic on the roads. There were some big ideas in this one requiring lots of critical thinking. From changing the dictionary definition of what cars were, to changing the world to save the environment - it's all in there! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the Kid...

This week we asked Arjun (age 9) if he could explain exactly how football works to someone who had never even heard of the game! Arjun goes on to effectively explain the rules of the game, how it functions, and where it takes place to a totally clueless alien. Great communication practice. For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usu...

This week we asked Zac (age 7) to work out how many tennis balls he could fit inside of his mum's car. His first guess came from a gut feeling, but with some analysis and comparing the size of a human to the size of a tennis ball, we came to some staggering numbers from this young mathematician! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp fr...

This week we asked Yushan (age 6) what superpower he would have. He could be very creative and pick anything he wanted to and his choice proved to be very heroic.  For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 http://onelink.to/4jbmqh

This week we spoke to Andrea (age 10) to see if she could convince us to remove Wednesdays from the weekly calendar. She was very ready to argue this crazy case by thinking about the pros and cons, and how we could even make more money from selling off your own Wednesday! Great practice in critical thinking. For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoa...

This week when speaking with Luan (age 9), we discovered that he loves Roblox, which we didn't know anything about! So when we asked him to tell us about it, we were surprised by just how much this video game contains, and how well he described every detail! Excellent communication skills. For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from you...

This was a totally spontaneous discussion I was having with a mum of a 9-year-old boy. I had been testing some questions from the KidCoachApp with her son and were were going over what we talked about afterwards. (That's the first half of the recording). In the second half, she was asking for some advice on how to have these sorts of "KidCoach" conversations herself at home. So we c...

This week we spoke with Zahra (age 9), trying to work out how you could describe a tree to an alien. She used all her communication skills in this one using descriptive sights, smells, and even considering its taste to show someone who has never seen a tree recognise one! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 h...

This week we spoke with Johan (age 9). When asked about who he would want to be from fiction, he went straight to Harry Potter. He talked creatively about how he sees himself in The Boy Who Lived, and how he'd like to live life like him! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 http://onelink.to/4jbmqh

This week we spoke with Aryan (age 10) and asked him how he would go about crossing a river. He shows amazing intuition, creative and critical thinking, and came up with all sorts of ways to use things around him. For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 http://onelink.to/4jbmqh

This week we spoke with Mariam (age 9) about one of her favourite things: Harry Potter! She tried to find a way to communicate how Quidditch would work to a Muggle, which is harder than it sounds like when you know it so SO well yourself, but a Muggle would not... For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 http://on...

This week we sat down with Chayil (age 10) to ask if he would rather live underwater or in space. Both are very isolated places with different challenges, and there is no real right answer here. Have a listen to how Chayil tackled this tough one! For more fast and fun questions to get your kids talking and thinking, download the KidCoachApp from your usual app store! 👉 http://onelink.to/4jbmqh