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Playful Connection Podcast
This is a podcast where a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in working with children and teens will be discussing practical and effective ways for adults to connect with children and teenagers using therapeutic techniques inspired by play therapy. These episodes will come in the form of simple steps of research based skills that you can implement today in order to better connect more meaningfully with the children and teens in your life!
Playful Connection Podcast
43: Open-Ended vs. Closed-Ended Questions
In this episode of the Playful Connection Podcast, Eddie Shin will share four simple tips on how to use open-ended questions and avoid the trap of using closed-ended, or yes/no questions, and how applying these tips will help increase your ability to connect with the children or teens in your life.
1. Start with "How" or "What"
2. Ask About Feelings or Thoughts
3. Encourage Descriptions
4. Avoid Yes/No Traps
Using open-ended questions with children and teens is like opening a door to a vast landscape. Closed-ended questions may open a narrow window, but open-ended ones unlock the whole door, allowing you to walk through their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. As you explore this wide-open space together, your connection deepens, and you create a path of trust and understanding that helps them grow and flourish.
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