CK & GK Podcast

Parent Tested, Kid Approved: We Found 15 Kid Conversation Starters That Actually Work

October 17, 2023 Jenny GK and Caitlin Kindred Season 3 Episode 90
CK & GK Podcast
Parent Tested, Kid Approved: We Found 15 Kid Conversation Starters That Actually Work
Show Notes Transcript

If you're feeling frustrated and disconnected from your kids because your attempts at conversation often end in one-word answers or awkward silence, then you’re not alone! Despite your best efforts, you may find that your questions about their day are met with indifference or that they prefer the company of screens over quality conversation. In this episode, we share effective strategies you can use to spark engaging dialogues and strengthen your bond with your children.

Conversation starters are valuable social skills that teach children how to handle small talk and open up in meaningful ways.—CK

This episode will help you

  • Create a safe space for open and honest conversations with your children.
  • Discover conversation starters for kids that will spark their curiosity and encourage them to open up.
  • Foster meaningful connections with your child through engaging conversations.

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00:00:00 - Jenny GK
Check it, check it, check it, check it, check it, check it.

00:00:02 - Caitlin Kindred
Tuesday. Oh, wow. Good job. Good job. That was not expected. I liked it. Anyway, we're so glad you're here today. We're talking about my own personal struggle and maybe yours too. But if you're struggling to get your child to open up about their days at school or anything else in their lives, maybe you want them to talk to you about something, but you don't know how to do that. So if your attempts to have conversations with your child are met with dead air, much like an awkward podcast moment, this episode is for you.

00:00:42 - Jenny GK
But before we do that, we need to introduce each other. And with me, as always, is Caitlin. But this week we're going to call her the Louvre because she's a work of art.

00:00:50 - Caitlin Kindred
Oh, that's cute. Have you seen that episode of Will and Grace where Grace says that she visited the Louvre and she went through it at a dead run because she even want to see anything in it?

00:01:03 - Jenny GK
That's where I thought you were going with this.

00:01:05 - Caitlin Kindred
Well, as always, we have Jenny, my vivacious rainbow of joy, who I just love so much. We haven't talked to each other. I haven't seen your face in a while. Yeah, I know. So I'm glad. I'm glad you're here. Let's do this.

00:01:22 - Jenny GK
Okay, so this week we're going to do things differently.

00:01:26 - Caitlin Kindred
Yes.

00:01:27 - Jenny GK
We are going to start with the meat of the show.

00:01:32 - Caitlin Kindred
Yes.

00:01:32 - Jenny GK
And then rather than appetizers, we have dessert for you.

00:01:37 - Caitlin Kindred
Oh, I like that. That's a good way of looking at it. So I'm all about full transparency here. Yes. We've gotten some feedback that says, hey, this show is great, but you have to wait to get to what they're actually talking about. Which, by the way, I do put chapter markers in the show. So if you are someone who wants to skip to the actual meet, you could click on the chapter marker that is there for you. You're welcome. But so fancy because we have gotten that feedback. I do want to give this a shot. We'll do the main course. Yes. And then we'll do the dessert. I like it. Okay.

00:02:13 - Jenny GK
Okay.

00:02:14 - Caitlin Kindred
So we're going to start I just have to ask you this question. What is one of the most effective tools in the teacher toolbox? What's one of your favorites?

00:02:24 - Jenny GK
I like what are you supposed to be doing?

00:02:28 - Caitlin Kindred
OOH, that's a good one.

00:02:30 - Jenny GK
Instead of what are you doing? What should you be doing?

00:02:33 - Caitlin Kindred
Right. That is very similar to the where are we supposed to be right now? To the hallway wanderer children. Yes. Where are we supposed to be right now? That was one of the lines I used to use all the time. Here's one of my favorites. Sentence starters.

00:02:47 - Jenny GK
Oh, yes. I like that. You maybe you could right.

00:02:52 - Caitlin Kindred
I like them. As an adult, I will say to my boss like, hey, I know you would like me to negotiate for XYZ. How would you start that conversation? How would you say that? So that I can then fill in the blanks with the missing pieces. Yes. So basically that's what we're doing here today. So we've got 75 Great Conversation starters for kids of all ages. Is the reference that I'm using it's by Emma? Yeah. No, I don't have 75. No, I have 15 that I took from the 70. Okay. But the article that I stole this information from is called 75 Great Conversation. Yeah. It's by Emma singer for pure. Wow. And she also references an article by Psych in Psychology Today. Let's try that again. She references an article in Psychology Today by a professor of psychology at UCSD named Gail Heyman. So I'll be using both of those references. But I do want to say that we've kind of touched on this subject before because we talked about it when we were talking about small talk. Right. We mentioned it's a really good idea to have some topics in mind when you know you're headed into a potentially awkward situation in which you will need small talk. So it works with adults, it also works for kids.

00:04:16 - Jenny GK
That's pretty much true of a lot of things.

00:04:19 - Caitlin Kindred
Yeah, absolutely. I have noticed that the people who don't know how to interact with kids because they haven't been around them and who do talk to them like they are small adults often tend to be a hit with kids.

00:04:32 - Jenny GK
Have you noticed that true.

00:04:34 - Caitlin Kindred
My husband is that way. He's not super kid oriented, necessarily, or he wasn't before he had his own kid, but then he would see them in the airport and he'd be like, hey kid, how are you doing? And the kids would be like, all over him. And meanwhile, I'm like, oh my gosh, how are and they don't even pay any attention to me. Those shoes so cool. Do they help you jump high? Oh my God, do they light up? And they'd be like, yeah. And then my husband be like, hey, cool shiz, man. Yeah, just gravitate like moth to a flame. It was unbelievable. So, yes, in a sense, you are having a conversation with a mini adult. Sort of, right?

00:05:11 - Jenny GK
Sort of.

00:05:11 - Caitlin Kindred
But here's why conversation starters are so helpful for kids. One, you're teaching them valuable social skills, aka. How they go into a situation with small talk and handle it themselves, right. Also, you are establishing a dynamic in which they are more likely to come to you in the event that they actually need to talk about something. Right.

00:05:31 - Jenny GK
You're giving them awkward to talk to mom or dad. Whatever your role is in their life, they already have some comfortability built.

00:05:40 - Caitlin Kindred
Right. They are icebreakers. They set the stage for meaningful conversation, and they help you not fall into the I guess every parent probably hates this one word answer, like, q and A. That happens. Right. And as teachers, we've heard these complaints from kids quite a lot. Right? It's like every time I get in the car, my mom's like, hi, how are you? What you been doing? How was your day? And the kids are like, please just shut up for a second. I love you, but I can't handle this right now. And so they give you one word answers, right. So if you have these questions in your back pocket, maybe you won't get one word answers. So these good conversation starters are things that steer clear of the one word answer. For example, did you like your lunch today? You will either get a yes or a no or right. Those are the only answers you get. Do you have a lot of homework? Yeah. All answers you will get if you ask questions that have a did or a do or was or whatever. So the other thing you don't want to ask is any question that has a right or a wrong answer.

00:07:02 - Jenny GK
Oh, that is clever. If you're starting the conversation, you want it to be low risk socially.

00:07:10 - Caitlin Kindred
Exactly. You don't want your kid to feel judged by any answer that they provide. So no right or wrongs and no yes or no's. Okay, so here's some tips, and again, I'm going to give you 15 of them, but all of them kind of follow these guidelines, and you can make up your own if you wanted to. Specific questions are always better than general ones. We've touched on this when we're talking about how do you help a new mom? Yes. You don't say, what do you need done? You say, I can do the dishes or I can do the laundry. Which one helps you the most? Right. You give them something specific. So you wouldn't say, how was school? Right. Because you just draw a blank. Instead, you say, how was the math test that I know you had today? Right. It's a specific question. It's something that's easier for them to answer, and maybe it jogs their memory about something else that happened during the day. Okay, perfect. Don't stress if the conversation doesn't just pick up immediately. Not every conversation feels organic and picks up right away, right? Right.

00:08:20 - Jenny GK
Especially if they just got in the car. Like you said, the kid is cooked. They need a few minutes to themselves. And it's not that they aren't happy to see you. It's that they feel safe and secure around you. And they know that they can let their guard down a little bit once they get in the car. So maybe what that child needs is just a few minutes to themselves in their safe space before they're ready to engage socially again.

00:08:46 - Caitlin Kindred
Totally. And some kids respond better to certain questions than other kids, right? Absolutely. You might find some of these questions are super helpful for you, and you might find some of them are just a complete swing and a miss, right? And that's okay. You're just going to try and test a few out before you know which ones are going to be the most likely to have your kid open up. Plus, there's also a really good chance that, like you said, your kid's just not feeling it in that moment. Tuesday.

00:09:12 - Jenny GK
Might not on Wednesday.

00:09:13 - Caitlin Kindred
Oh. How many times have you been there as a parent, right? Like, you finally have the potty training bribe figured out and then the next day that bribe stops working, right. It's going to be like that for these questions as well. Make sure you time it right the instant your kid gets in the car as they're throwing their backpack in the backseat. Not the best time to ask those questions. Do you like being bombarded with questions when you first enter the door of your house? No, it's the same thing. Don't do that to your kid. Right.

00:09:45 - Jenny GK
If you're doing it, you can greet them.

00:09:47 - Caitlin Kindred
Yeah, right. You can say, I'm glad to see you.

00:09:49 - Jenny GK
I hope you had a great day. We're going to go do X, Y, and Z. Now, you don't have to just be silent, but don't necessarily expect to pull information from the child as they first enter the car.

00:10:02 - Caitlin Kindred
Right. I actually like to use that opportunity to shove a snack into my child's hand. Right? It's like you get in the car, okay. Oh, hey, buddy, it's so nice to see you. Hand over the granola bar. Let them eat silently, and then when they start talking again, then I'm like, okay, it's safe to speak. All right. Blood sugar stabilized, right? Exactly. Save off the hanger. Here we go. And then also another tip is to share something about yourself, right. Especially with teenagers, this tends to work, but also when you're talking to any kid of any age, and I know this works with teenagers because I've taught teenagers, but how many times have you just started a conversation by saying, have you ever and then you kind of lay out what happened to you? For example, have you ever tried to take a drink of water and the water just sort of dribbles out the side of your face and down your shirt and you just get soaking wet? Well, that just happened to me. Has anything frustrating like that happened to you today where you just felt like an idiot in front of everybody? Something like that. Right.

00:11:09 - Jenny GK
So good.

00:11:11 - Caitlin Kindred
The example that I saw in that article was, oh, my gosh, I dropped my lunch on the floor today and it made me so mad. Did anything like that happen to you today that upset you? Right? That's great.

00:11:23 - Jenny GK
That's really great.

00:11:24 - Caitlin Kindred
Yeah. I like to do the embarrassing ones. Those tend to be here I embarrass myself today. Right, exactly. Which is part of the premise of this show. You're welcome. So here are a few sentence starters. From that list of 75. No, I'm not going through all of them. That is insane. But I did link them in the show notes for this episode, and you can go grab them. These were just a few that kind of stuck out to me. And on that list, they're not organized by big kid, middle kid, little kid. Right. They're sort of just kind of smooshed together. So I took a few of them and sort of organized them and categorized them for which ones I would use for which age group. Yeah. Okay. So I'm starting with littles, and I categorize Littles as like, K through four. Not like itty bitties. Itty bitties will talk to you about their dinosaur and make noises for you. They're easy, right. It's like once they go to school and they get in the back of the car and they don't say anything and they don't tell you anything about their day, that's when you need to pull these questions out. So what's your favorite thing about your teacher? I like that one. What's your favorite part of the day? What's your favorite cartoon character and why? I'm going to get a lot of sonic out of that one. If I ask my child, right. If our pet could talk, what do you think they would say? Which I thought was a very cute one and who's the nicest person you know? Right. Some of those are just really like you're going to get some good conversation out of them.

00:12:59 - Jenny GK
Right.

00:13:00 - Caitlin Kindred
And if you ask that last one, you're going to get a really cute answer, I promise. Okay. For Middles, I said this was like fifth through Eigth ish, right? It depends on your Eigth grader, but yeah. Do you like dinner or breakfast foods better? That's great. Breakfast. That is a good one. And I'm going to answer with waffles. What's your favorite holiday? I had a kid in fifth grade.

00:13:25 - Jenny GK
Ask me that this week.

00:13:26 - Caitlin Kindred
Really?

00:13:27 - Jenny GK
Yes.

00:13:28 - Caitlin Kindred
What answer did you give?

00:13:29 - Jenny GK
Thanksgiving.

00:13:31 - Caitlin Kindred
Interesting. That's my husband's favorite.

00:13:33 - Jenny GK
Oh, I love Thanksgiving.

00:13:35 - Caitlin Kindred
Why do you love Thanksgiving?

00:13:36 - Jenny GK
I love Thanksgiving because, number one, the foods are only for Thanksgiving. I do not eat roast turkey for anything else. I know some people make it at Christmas time. I don't. Christmas, it is just Thanksgiving, and stuffing is just Thanksgiving.

00:13:49 - Caitlin Kindred
Oh, yeah, stuffing is just Thanksgiving.

00:13:51 - Jenny GK
But also in my family, we go around the table and say what we're thankful for for the year, and we have this written assumption that family health, financial stability, all of those are already assumed. So you don't have to do that thing of like, oh, I'm really thankful for my family. Yeah, we know. Okay, move on.

00:14:12 - Caitlin Kindred
Yeah.

00:14:13 - Jenny GK
We get to really reflect on the year together and think about something fun. And sometimes it's funny things, but the idea that we kind of spend some time reflecting as a family is really nice.

00:14:25 - Caitlin Kindred
I love that. See, look at that. Ask the question, and then conversation begins. Thank you. What do you think is the best part about being a grown up? I love asking that of kids who are in the middle range because they're starting to look forward to being a grown up, but they also still get all the benefits of being a kid. I think that's a fun one.

00:14:48 - Jenny GK
That is good.

00:14:50 - Caitlin Kindred
And if you had a magic wand, what's the first thing you would do with it? Right. Because they're still little enough to kind of go with the magic wand concept. Yes. But they have some really big ideas. I thought that was a cute one.

00:15:06 - Jenny GK
I like that one, too, because it's also not like if you only had three wishes to where they have to actually think about, okay, well, I can only do three.

00:15:12 - Caitlin Kindred
Only get three. Right.

00:15:14 - Jenny GK
I have this magic wand. I hold the power.

00:15:16 - Caitlin Kindred
Right.

00:15:17 - Jenny GK
It's just my first thing.

00:15:18 - Caitlin Kindred
Right? That's so good. Oh, my gosh. Please do that with your students. I'm dying to know what the answer would be.

00:15:22 - Jenny GK
Okay.

00:15:24 - Caitlin Kindred
All right. I called them biggles on my notes, so we got littles, middles, and biggles. Okay. I don't know why I called them biggles. I just thought it was noises, but I thought Eigth grade and bigger. So, like, a little bit of crossover with some of the other ones, but sure. Which school rule do you wish you could get rid of? Nice. Right.

00:15:45 - Jenny GK
Definitely plays right into the teen mindset.

00:15:48 - Caitlin Kindred
Right.

00:15:49 - Jenny GK
And it allows for complaint and pushing back against authority in a way that's respectful.

00:15:58 - Caitlin Kindred
Right.

00:15:59 - Jenny GK
Like, recognizing it is a school rule, but I would get rid of it because that's cool.

00:16:04 - Caitlin Kindred
And they're most likely going to say something that, to me, is probably totally legit. Right. Like, my school had, like, assigned dates.

00:16:14 - Jenny GK
At lunch or something.

00:16:15 - Caitlin Kindred
Right. Or like the no hat rule. Okay, explain to me how no hats is a really big issue. If you're worried about them writing things on the brill. The brim and cheating, make them turn it around. It's not that big of a deal. They can wear their hat backwards during the test, in the tournament. Like, who cares?

00:16:32 - Jenny GK
I had a professor in college who only had one rule in his class, and it was no ball caps, but he didn't care if you just took it off and put on your desk. He just didn't want you to wear it in his classroom. And I was like, okay, totally reasonable. 100% reasonable. I don't want you to wear a hat in my class. All right?

00:16:51 - Caitlin Kindred
Okay.

00:16:52 - Jenny GK
And remember, I was a wildlife fisheries major, so all the bubbas would come in with their hats, and they would just take it off as they went in and put it down on their desk, and then they put it right back on as soon as they're leaving.

00:17:04 - Caitlin Kindred
All right. I mean, that's fine, right?

00:17:07 - Jenny GK
That's not no hats at school. Anyway, that's not the point. But the point is, again but see, conversation starter, right?

00:17:16 - Caitlin Kindred
Which of your friends is easiest to talk to? It's a deep one, right? Yeah. If you were a parent, what rules would you have? Oh, flip the script. It also, though, that one is one that you can have a conversation about, and it can create some buy in for why there are certain expectations at your house, which I liked. What's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to you? And this one can be just for fun. Who is someone you'd really like to meet? Could be anybody, right?

00:17:52 - Jenny GK
Could be anybody.

00:17:53 - Caitlin Kindred
Yeah. There are so many good ones on this list. I was really thinking, like, oh, I'm going to add this one and this one. I looked at it and I was like, okay, I now have, like, nine for each group, and I really need to slow my role. I'm going to keep it at the 15. So if you want to know more conversation starters, like a sentence starter 60 more, right? Not approximately, exactly 60 more. You can go to the link in our show notes, and it'll take you right to that article.

00:18:23 - Jenny GK
Love it.

00:18:24 - Caitlin Kindred
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back. All right, it's time for the dirt. Yeah, I'm excited. Yeah.

00:18:35 - Jenny GK
The cart has come by, and I will be choosing the current obsession and the gem of the week.

00:18:43 - Caitlin Kindred
Go for it.

00:18:44 - Jenny GK
Okay, so I am currently obsessed with fall weather.

00:18:50 - Caitlin Kindred
Yes, I have sweatpants on. Okay. It's definitely not cold enough for sweatpants.

00:18:54 - Jenny GK
But I don't care. No, it's dropped into the 70s, which is incredible. The other day it was 80, and I rolled my windows down and I listened to music. I mean, it was great. But today it was in the high 50s when I'm getting ready to go out, and I put on fake leather pants.

00:19:19 - Caitlin Kindred
Nice.

00:19:20 - Jenny GK
And a flannel and a vest. And when I came out of my closet, john looks at me and says, I like your outfit. It's Sandy from Greece goes to the Pacific Northwest.

00:19:39 - Caitlin Kindred
Oh, that's good. Well done. I was like, okay, maybe I'll change. I have jeans.

00:19:44 - Jenny GK
And he was like, Nah, own it.

00:19:47 - Caitlin Kindred
Sandy from Greece goes the Pacific Northwest. I love it. It's perfect. I do love these temperatures. It's finally fall. It's finally starting to feel like fall. There's been a lighting change. Have you noticed the way the sun shines is different in Texas, too? Oh, man, that's nice. Well, I do also enjoy these temperatures, but right now I am enjoying very much, big Brother. Now, we both know I have a problem with reality television. Is it a problem? No, I actually don't think it is a problem. I really love it.

00:20:26 - Jenny GK
Some people might label it a problem, but for you, it's just a healthy affection.

00:20:30 - Caitlin Kindred
Right? It is not a guilty pleasure, because I get joy out of it, and I refuse to feel guilty for something I get pleasure out of. So there you go. But this season of Big Brother, this is season 25, which also, by the way, what? 25 show? Yeah, I first got hooked on it when I went to London, actually.

00:20:52 - Jenny GK
Josh told me that Dane Cook is 50.

00:20:55 - Caitlin Kindred
EW. What?

00:20:56 - Jenny GK
Yeah. I was like, Wait, what? Dane Cook? No, everybody had to have a CD in college. Dane Cook. And he was like, yeah, he's 50.

00:21:06 - Caitlin Kindred
No, I don't like it.

00:21:07 - Jenny GK
Yeah, sorry. Go back.

00:21:09 - Caitlin Kindred
Big Brother watching it in London. Keep going. I was watching it in London, and they made this girl sing Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes like a thousand times in one night as a punishment for and she was like, Head, shoulder and she had to do the dance with it. I was just like, this poor girl. And then the other thing that made me laugh is there's this one chick who had two gems of a line, and one of them was this guy's all in her business. And she's like, you don't need to be in my business. And he's like, yes, I do. It's my business. And she's like, no, it's not. You're not a reporter. And I just died laughing. She's telling him he's not a reporter, so he doesn't need to be in her business. Hilarious. And then the other one she said was, why don't you go find some traffic and have a play in it? And I was like, okay. I'm hooked on this show. So I've been watching Big Brother. I didn't watch last season. I don't like to watch the celebrity seasons. They're not really my thing. But this is the first one that I've been watching in a while where there isn't just one person or one group dominating the entire thing. There's people disrupting alliances. Oh, man. I truly don't know. There's one person who's kind of dominating competitions and causing chaos in the house on purpose, which is hilarious. But also, there have just been different alliances in control the entire season, so I'm here for it. Well done, big brother. Season 25. You all are killing it. Looks great. Keep it up. Very entertaining. It is a landmark season, for sure. All right, you picked the gem of the week off the cart. Let's hear it. What's your gem?

00:22:49 - Jenny GK
Okay, so we're driving to school the other day, and Abigail hands me her yogurt, which she's, like, very into French yogurt right now.

00:22:58 - Caitlin Kindred
Oh, like that wee whatever. That's okay.

00:23:01 - Jenny GK
So, yes, here's the deal. I was like, French yogurt? yoplay. And John's like, no, not yoplay. I'm like, yoplay, it is evolution. And she was like, no, it's this special yogurt from the Gourmet grocery store, and it comes, like, in a little ceramic pot, whatever. So obviously they don't sell that at our neighborhood grocery store. So John got her to just eat we, which is the fancy yo play. So I was right all along. But anyway, and it comes in little glass jars, not pottery, but they're still nice.

00:23:35 - Caitlin Kindred
Nice.

00:23:36 - Jenny GK
So we're driving to school, and she hands me her yogurt and says, can you open this for me? I have morning hands.

00:23:45 - Caitlin Kindred
What's a morning yeah, you have morning hands.

00:23:49 - Jenny GK
Just like when you wake up and your hands are really weak and you can't grab things. No, I don't know about that. I hold my toothbrush every morning with no problems.

00:24:04 - Caitlin Kindred
She says no morning hands. Like a thing.

00:24:06 - Jenny GK
I was like, It's not a thing.

00:24:08 - Caitlin Kindred
It's not a thing.

00:24:08 - Jenny GK
And stop trying to make fetch happen. Just because you say it more doesn't mean it's real. Morning hands.

00:24:18 - Caitlin Kindred
Oh, bless her sweet little heart.

00:24:20 - Jenny GK
I did open the yo much.

00:24:22 - Caitlin Kindred
That was nice of you.

00:24:23 - Jenny GK
After I made fun of her for her morning hands.

00:24:26 - Caitlin Kindred
Yeah, you had to. That's going to be a thing she's going to keep hearing about till she's like in her 20s. You're going to be like, oh, sorry.

00:24:32 - Jenny GK
I know you can't make coffee in the morning. Bring her grandchildren. Or by grandchildren, she's going to bring them to my house and be like, oh, well, your mom couldn't open this because she had morning hands.

00:24:43 - Caitlin Kindred
Exactly. Oh, man. Well, I finally went and got a massage for the first time in forever. And if you are a former student of mine, you will know exactly what I'm talking about here. But you know I have a tattoo on the inside of my forearm, and it is in Kelly green ink. Yes. And every year at the beginning of the school year, I would tell the kids, hey, I have many piercings in my ears. I now have a piercing in my nose. I have tattoos. I am that teacher. These are tattoos. The ink is not going anywhere.

00:25:17 - Jenny GK
You're right.

00:25:18 - Caitlin Kindred
Even this one, that's green. It's not a black tattoo like you're used to seeing. It's a green tattoo. I swear it's a tattoo. And they'd be like, no, it's not. And I would lick my finger and try to rub it off and wash it in front of them to prove that it's real. And they would finally go, okay, it's real. And then in February, they'd be like, wait, how come you write on your arm in the same way every single day? Like, they would just completely space out that it's a tattoo. Yeah. So when I went and got my massage, my masseur stops dead in his tracks. And he's like, oh. And I was like, what's wrong? What's going on? I'm in a vulnerable state right here. Could you just not gas? And I really was like, you're freaking me out. And he goes, I'm going to rub your ink off of your arm. And I was like, what? And he goes, yeah, the lotion. It's going to ruin the writing on your arm. And I was like, oh, baby, no, that's a tattoo. And he was like, what? No, it's not. And I was like, okay. It's not So then he starts massaging it, and he's like, oh, my gosh, that's so wild. And he spent the next 5 minutes talking about my tattoo on my arm because he didn't believe that it wasn't.

00:26:31 - Jenny GK
Going to stay on because it wasn't black ink.

00:26:34 - Caitlin Kindred
Right.

00:26:34 - Jenny GK
Just so funny, because colorful tattoos are everywhere now.

00:26:37 - Caitlin Kindred
Right. But they're outlined a lot of them. There's black on them, so you can tell. This one is just really does green sharpie on my arm every single day, which I get. But I also well, and you would.

00:26:53 - Jenny GK
Have to get up really early because with morning hands, I'm not sure that you would be able to write.

00:26:56 - Caitlin Kindred
Yeah, I don't know how I'd be able to write. It's really hard, and I can't grip it the pencil correctly. It's just so strange. I don't know. I mean wow. Anyway oh, man. Well, that brings us that. Does it? It's a shorty, but it's good. I know. Okay. Yeah. All right.

00:27:18 - Jenny GK
So today we heard about different ways to engage young people in conversation. And when you're looking through that list of 75 make good choices.

00:27:31 - Caitlin Kindred
Yep. And carry around a sentence starter question in your back pocket, because you never know when you might be able to use it. So, Jenny, what's your favorite? No, I change it. What's your least favorite? My no, don't answer that right now. We're going to go. Bye.