On the days I pick up Squirts from “school,” I always ask how his day went. Without exception, he almost always says, “Good!” (There was the one time he said, “Boring,” but I think he was just testing out a new word.)
I usually follow up by asking, “Well, what did you do today?” Someone who had a good day should be able to tell you something they’d done, right? Apparently not.
Squirts usual response is, “I don’t know.”
“Well,” I venture on, “did you learn anything new today?”
Again, “I don’t know.”
With a wee bit of prompting based on the parent cheat sheets the teachers provide, I can usually get a little more information. Really fascinating stuff like which words start with the letter “U” or who bit whom today.
