Jazmine Ruiz

At dinner, sit down with your parents and ask them about their days. Try to listen and ask interesting questions. Then, write about your experience.

I completed this experiment with some cards called “Chit Chat”. It was fun because there were some cards for the parents to ask for their children. My mom and dad took turns with the cards and I had a
pack of cards for myself to ask my parents. It was weird at first because we don’t usually talk a lot about ourselves or actually have a conversation. It would always go something like this: Mom: “So, how was
school.” Me: “it was good.” Mom: what did you do at school?” Me: “ stuff, I have a lot of homework though”. I would start playing with my little brother because he would start screaming my name if I didn’t.
That would be the end of the conversation. These cards helped me a lot and I think that if I keep asking
questions and actually have conversations with my parents we would have a little bond and maybe,
( I said maybe) there might be a chance that they could trust me more and I could approach them more easily when asking a favor. ;).

There were some interesting and good questions on the cards. I learned a whole bunch more than I
thought I would at first. I learned what they liked most about me, their favorite story about someone in this family, what’s the most difficult part of being a parent and so on. There were some interesting questions too. “ Why do you think kids say bad things to each other” and “what is the story of my name?”
I not only learned more about my parents, but I learned more about me too.