Comments on: We are not the Cosby Family!

By: Sharon Katzin

Sharon Katzin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:55:45 +0000

Darryl, thanks for sharing with us your family meal routine, it sounds lovely. One thing I do with my daughter when I pick her up from school is that she must immediately tell me something good that happened to her that day. It works so well, we laugh all of the way home. It used to be that she would tell me all of the “bad” stuff as soon as she got in the car. It became miserable. Now she forgets to share the “bad” stuff and it makes for a more pleasant evening.

We do have a unofficial rule that we eat together each evening. I may try and incorporate some of your ideas in to our precious time together.

Hope to come to the winery again this year. We were the family from the US that went to your “wild” dinner last June.

Take care.

Sharon Katzin

By: Darryl

Darryl — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:20:39 +0000

Thanks for the comment Brandon.
With 2 kids at school, we will throw your suggestion into the mix as well!

By: Brandon Wilcox

Brandon Wilcox — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:01:09 +0000

Excellent advice! We’ve been asking the “What is the best thing that happened in your day today” question at meal time for quite a while, but we haven’t been asking the other two. We do now.

Another question I’ve recently started asking is “What feedback did you get at school today?” This came about after reading the latest Metro article “Best Schools”. They quoted Debra Masters, Visible Learning Laboratories, University of Auckland who said there are two good questions to judge how good a school is. One question is to a teacher and the other to your child…

“What feedback did you get today?”

“Not how good it was, not what they’re doing, and not even what they learned. Ask what the teacher said to them and wrote on their work.”