The Kid's Book of Questions

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Summary: This Book Facilitates Some Great Conversations!
Review: I use this book in my child/family therapy sessions and and found it to be a GREAT tool to develop rapport and break the ice. We pass it around in a circle and the kids seems to get a great kick out of asking parents questions.

When therapy sessions are slow we will sometimes pick out a question from the book to generate a discussion. The fact that it is something in written form just for kids seems to appeal to the kids. I have purchased many copies--I often give mine away to the families who really fall in love with the book. I only wish there was another edition to have more questions to access. :)

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Summary: Much more appropriate for class than its predecessor
Review: I use this in my public speaking class to start discussion groups.

It's pretty good, and far more appropriate for my students than "The Book of Questions." Some questions are ba bit elementary for my high schoolers, but that's okay.

Rating:
Summary: Much more appropriate for class than its predecessor
Review: I use this in my public speaking class to start discussion groups.

It's pretty good, and far more appropriate for my students than "The Book of Questions." Some questions are ba bit elementary for my high schoolers, but that's okay.

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Summary: Nonstop fun for kids and their parents!
Review: I will let you choose if the following questions are inappropriate or not. (quoted from the book)

1) If you became so ill that you would die if you did not stay hooked up to a large life support machine for the rest of your life, would you want someone to pull the plug?
2) Are you afraid there will be a nuclear war? If so, do you have any ideas about how to keep it from happening?
3) Imagine you got hit by a car and could be saved ONLY by a special operation. The operation would give you a normal, happy life, but would unfortunately cause you fifteen minutes of terrible, stabbing pain every morning when you awoke. Would you want to have the operation?

I quoted all of these questions word for word. In the last question do you not see that there is no alternative. The kid chooses life with 15 minutes of pain every morning or chooses to die?

I gave this book one star because I feel some of the questions are inappropriate for a 'kids' book and should have been left out. Furthermore, the other questions seem to lack a spark of imagination, creativity, or fantasy behind them.

This book may help you communicate with children, but you have to take into consideration their age group, maturity, and then be selective about which questions are appropriate for them.

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Summary: perspectives through kids answers
Review: I've used this book with my own kids, and I've used it in my classroom. It was enjoyed by so many students that I hate to say it, but one student walked off with it at the end of the year. I work in a school where a lot of the kids are at risk, and this book was wonderful as a tool to help them examin their attitudes, their fears, and their feelings about things. It takes a little time to look through and evaluate what would be good for your classroom. That's a subjective thing anyway, and you have to know your students, but over all, I find this book to be worthwhile and fun at the same time.