How can we have more meaningful conversations with our kids?

August 19
27 mins

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Episode Description

How was school today? What did you have for lunch? Any parent who's asked these questions consistently has probably been met with a single-word response or even just a grunt. How do we make those conversations better? Ariel Kalil of the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy thinks many of us have been thinking wrong about how to encourage parents to talk and read with their children. Do parents just need better conversation starters?

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