When the pandemic hit, Kavin realised he had been so busy at work he had forgotten how to connect with and talk to his children.
I used to get home just in time to see my two kids, who are‘How was school?’ I would mumble, tucking them in before planting a kiss on their foreheads.This was back in 2019 and, to be honest, it was all I could muster after a long day of meetings, emails and presentations..
While this, eventually, brought many benefits, it took some time to get used to. And things didn’t start all that well. The open-ended questions bit caught my imagination. These are questions with no right answer, where it matters more what you think than what you know. My brain interpreted this as a way to ask quirky or unusual questions to my kids; questions that I wouldn’t usually ask. I also saw an educational opportunity to encourage ‘thinking skills’ in a way that wouldn’t feel like learning.
At first the kids were puzzled as to why I was asking this bizarre stuff, when, probably, they were expecting the usual, ‘Have you done your homework?!’ And I loved coming up with these weird and wonderful questions so much that I kept writing more. Each time I made sure to deliberately design them to build 21Within a few weeks I had what I was craving for years; meaningful moments created with my kids, that only took a few minutes of conversation here and there. Building memories that would last a lifetime.
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