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Questions To Ask Your Kids After School -- Expanding Conversation and Connection
In today's episode, Emily shares loads of questions that you can ask your child after school that will ACTUALLY elicit connection and conversation! With some simple tweaks to the questions we're posing as parents when our kiddos return home from school, we can say goodbye to the dreaded one word answers from them each and everyday! Listen in for more!
Time Stamps:
0:34 - Intro
1:20 - We've surpassed over 5000 downloads!
3:00 - Shifting the types of questions we're asking
7:00 - Only use 1 or 2 questions each day and prepare for an adjustment period
10:47 - Questions that help gauge where your child is at and help open them up
12:45 - Questions that allow kids to talk about the things that feel challenging for them
16:27 - Questions that allow kids to focus on the positive parts of their day
18:32 - Questions that are open ended and let children go in different directions
19:35 - Questions that focus on relationships being built at school and give a sense of their social emotional well being
23:34 - Questions that hone in on the more academic side of school
27:32 - Questions that are light and airy and easy for kids to answer
29:28 - A great sentence starter to show your kids you thought of them throughout the day
31:15 - An announcement about the summer schedule for the pod
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How was your day? Fine. What did you learn today? Nothing. Ah! Can anyone else relate? The doom of the one word answers after school.
Today's show is going to be packed full of questions that you can ask your kids that actually encourage communication, that elicit response,
especially as we head into the last month of school. These questions will help give a glimpse into what's actually happened throughout your kid's day. Well,
hey there, friend, and welcome to the Joyful Flamingo podcast. I'm your host, Emily Schreiber, and I am obsessed with empowering women to tune into themselves,
to zoom in on their own well -being, so in turn, they can lead their most vibrant, aligned, and joyful lives. I want to create a tsunami of self -discovered,
self -loved, and self -understood women to show up in this world unapologetically and joyfully and to pass the torch on for generations to come. If any of that feels aligned with your vibe stick around,
I'm so glad you're here. Now, let's go find our joy. (upbeat music) Hey, hey, hey, Joyful Flamingo Fluck and welcome to the show today.
So a few weeks ago, something cool really happened and I forgot to share it with you so I'm gonna share it today. Guess what? We surpassed 5 ,000 downloads of the show.
How freaking cool is that? Rewind a bit to last summer when I was actually starting to brainstorm all of my ideas of how I was gonna get the Joyful Flamingo up and running. Well,
the show didn't last long. but my goal was to hit 10 ,000 downloads of the show within the first year. And I don't know why that number came to me. I think I had read somewhere that most shows don't make it to that point.
You know, the podcaster will likely quit before they even get close to hitting that. It became my goal, 10 ,000 downloads. Well, here we are on track to hit that 10 ,000 downloads.
before we celebrate one year in November because we're already halfway through. So thank you. Thank you to every one of you who have listened to an episode, who have shared an episode. Oh,
we truly just believe we are creating community here. And you know, we're providing or we're hoping that we're providing value and impact for so many women and so many families in doing so.
So I feel incredible. privileged to show up for you each and every week. And as a shameless plug, if you haven't yet rated the show or left a review on Apple podcasts yet,
what are you waiting for? I swear, it will take you literally a few minutes from your phone, but it will create such impact for our growing flock. So if you have not yet done that yet,
please, please do it for us. It would mean the world to us. Okay, let's get to it. Today, we're chatting about conversations with our kids. The idea for this episode was sparked a couple weeks ago by some of the conversations I was having with some of my fellow parents and attempts to connect with their kids after school.
And then I was really thinking about, okay, how am I connecting with my kid after school? Am I getting one worded responses? And I was. I then started to remember the conversations that I used to have with parents before I was a parent of the kids that I was teaching back when I was in the classroom.
So all of those things combined made me go, okay, this is an incredibly common thing, isn't it? To pick your kid up from school, ask, how was your day? Or what did you learn?
(laughs) the responses always are resounding fine or nothing. There's no color. There's no detail. And then we as parents, we're left with the questions. We're like wondering,
Oh my goodness, have they had a horrible day? Are they eating lunch by themselves or whatever the story is that we're telling ourselves? When in fact, the only problem is that we're not asking the right questions.
And I do feel like I sit in a kind of unique spot with this topic as both a parent and a teacher. I kind of know what's happening on both sides of the coin.
So I thought today I try and share what I think might help many families to get kids talking more. When I was teaching, I used to send home this little, it was like a half page sheet and it was called ask me about.
And really what it was was a list of things. that gave parents an opportunity to ask specific questions based off of the things that were happening in the classroom.
Some of the things that I listed would be Ask Me About and then I'd like list a math topic or something that we were learning in science or the word of the week or whatever it was, something that was curriculum related.
I also included things like issues that I saw were happening on the young. or conversations that I had overheard being had at lunchtime. Basically, it was just an overview of what it looked like to be in class that week.
And it gave parents this kind of reliable memory jogger for their kids to then go, Oh, yeah, like I can talk about that. Because it was a specific question that their parent was asking.
It wasn't just this like broad most of the time overwhelming question about how their day was, you know, and kids often don't even know where to start with. I mean, adults don't know where to start with that.
When Hubs comes home and I go, how was your day? His response is good, you know, and similarly when he asks me, when I did that for parents, I got a lot of great feedback.
Oh, this was actually creating conversation in our home. I kind of forgot about that because it was before I was a parent. Then when I remembered that I thought to myself well that's really helpful to put in the back of my mind.
What are the types of questions I can be asking as a parent? How do I get my kid talking more? I know that I'm not in each of your child's classrooms.
I don't know the specific books they're reading or the curriculum points they're hitting. I do feel like I've gathered some questions together today that I feel like are pretty decent across the board and being able to get your kid talking after school rather than just giving you the same old,
you know, one word response that we dread. First and foremost, they are not meant to all be used every day. In fact, I think that is sometimes the overwhelm for kids.
You know, they finally, they get their brain. to relax after school. They let their guard down a bit. They've had to work so hard to keep themselves together at school that then it's their unraveling period at the end of a day.
And when they're bombarded with too many questions, that's when it's overwhelming or too broad of questions. So my advice is to choose one or two of these that we talk about each day.
They're meant to be switched up too. They're meant to be... kind of kept in your back pocket so that they're not overused and kind of one or two are taken each day to kind of catch your kid by surprise,
but also allow them to think about the answer and then be able to open up to you. The questions here today are gonna try to encourage bonding, storytelling,
and they're also going to require real thought for the kids to be able to answer them. They're pinpointed and specific enough that they know what they need to talk about.
It's not just this overall arching concept of like, how are you today? So at first, I wanna give a fair warning. It might not go over totally well the very first couple of times you do this,
okay? They might not totally be into this. And it depends on the age of your kid too, right? I am gonna share a little story about teenagers because-- because although I don't raise teenagers a few years yet,
I will, and I've taught many a teenager. A few years ago, I had a mom tell me about this thing that she did after school every day with her teens. She called it something like snacks and scoop or something.
I don't know. Basically, once they got home from school every day, she'd make them a snack first. So before even asking them anything about their day. she provided food and they would sit down to eat it because duh,
all kids, I hope I'm not alone here, but I feel like all kids want a snack after school. It would be the time for them to give her then the scoop on school while they were sitting there eating their snack.
Again, the questions, they're not asked as soon as they walk through the door, she gives them a minute, she got their nervous systems regulated, she helped them do that. first and then while they were eating,
while they were distracted by the act of doing something, that's when she started to post questions and she said ultimately it became her favorite part of her day and she thought as it kept going that secretly it ended up being her kids favorite part of the day too even if they didn't want to admit it and even though it took consistent and,
you know, the kids weren't biting at first, she kept going, and I'll tell you, there is nothing like a genuinely interested parent to make a kid feel safer and more willing and wanting to open up.
Sure, they may roll their eyes. They may try to avoid the questions at first, but if you keep showing them that you genuinely want to know, eventually they'll start to crave that connection too.
Keep some of these questions in your back pocket. See if any of them bring forward some more conversation in your households and know that these ones today are geared towards younger kids.
And that's just because that's where I feel comfortable. That's where I'm at in my parenting journey. I mean, if you do have teens, I feel lot of these questions can be tweaked for an older audience.
Also know that these questions aren't really about specific academic learnings in the classroom, right? They're more about emotional social well -being and the ones that do dive into the learning side that I'm going to share today.
They are a little bit more broad, but in my experience the more you show interest regardless of the nature of the question you're asking, eventually the more your kid will end up telling you about all of the things at school,
including the academic stuff. It's kind of like you got to crack the code first and then the flood gates open. So here goes. A question that is always really good to start with is like a gauging question of the day like,
okay, where are they at today when I'm picking them up? a really good one to start with is Okay, on a scale of one to five one being you are the least tired and five being you are the most tired Where are you right now?
And it's a really good way to gauge before you start questions Where your kid is at on that spectrum? Is it even worth asking a bunch of questions right now or are they like out of five?
Are they so exhausted that they need time to do before you jump in? Another really good one is just, how would you rate your day today? Scale of one to 10. Although it seems like it's just asking how their day was,
which it is. That is what the question is asking. It is a bit more specific. It gives them like a task. They have to decide, okay, one to 10. How was my day? For smaller kids,
I've heard teachers use this a lot. Was it a thing? up day, a thumbs medium day or a thumbs down day? You could use that too instead of a sliding scale of one to 10. Both of these are questions that kind of allow you to go,
okay, what am I working with here? Are they in a mood to answer questions right now or should I maybe save it for a later time? Another one that always gets a response almost right away for me anyway is,
tell me something that made you laugh today. Or tell me something that someone did that was so silly today. This is always a favorite with my kindergartner. I feel like young kids,
they just love talking about silly stuff that happens. It opens them up, it brings out their playful side. It then prepares them to want to answer more questions because they're enjoying the things that they're talking about right off the bat.
Tell me something that made you laugh. today. Tell me something about, you know, something that was silly today. Once you've kind of opened up their being, you can then start to decide,
okay, what types of questions am I going to ask here? What I'm actually going to start with might seem counter -intuitive because I know what we focus on grows and we want to focus on the positive things that they're loving about school and that sort of thing.
I do feel like some we don't leave enough safe space for our kids to tell us what they're not liking about school in a way that we've actually asked them that question.
Sure, they'll tell us one word answers of the things that they really don't like, but are we actually asking them? Do we seem interested in what they're not enjoying? So there are a couple of questions that I think could be really impactful for a lot of families.
One being, was there anything that felt super boring to you today? Again, we just focus so much on the positive of school, which is great. But sometimes we have to allow them to feel like it's okay that they're not enjoying everything.
If you're catching them on a particularly crusty day, this question about like, Oh, what felt boring to you today? This one might be the key to opening them up. Similarly,
you could ask something like, what felt really hard today? Or, ooh, was there a time you felt super frustrated today? Or, oh, I like this one for small kids. What was the hardest rule for you to follow today?
All of those questions show that you're genuinely intrigued and interested in what they have to say. And another one is... was there anything that you learned today that made you feel confused?
Or was there anything you learned today that you didn't understand? These are all really great starting questions to open up the conversation that will likely lead into the topic of resilience,
of recognizing their strengths and recognizing their weaknesses and heading into a place where you as the parent may be able to offer help. and support through something that may be feeling difficult for them right now at school.
And then normalizing, talking about these things is key, right? So, you know, if you do this, but you very rarely talk about the bad parts of your day, at the dinner table, start doing it, talk with your spouse about the things that didn't quite feel good for you today and how you got through it.
Because I really feel like when you do that, it will create an environment where your kids are like, oh, okay, like, no. are all perfect. I can have good parts of my day and bad parts of my day,
and we're all comfortable sharing all of the parts of our day with our family." I also really like this question. What's something that you wondered about today, but you didn't want to ask?
Sometimes in a class setting surrounded by 25 of their peers, they're not always comfortable asking a question that they genuinely have. And the first time you ask this one,
honestly, likely they won't have an answer for it because it wasn't in their awareness. While they were, while the question popped up in their head at school, they weren't aware of it necessarily. But after a few times of asking this question over and over again,
when they eventually do have a moment at school where they want to ask something, but they feel uncomfortable to, they'll then remember, Oh yeah, mom asked me that. the other day or dad asked me that the other day.
And you may find that they may even come out and talk to you about it without you asking the question once they get home. All of those are really good ways of talking about experiences that maybe didn't go great for them at school,
but showing them that you genuinely want to hear that side of things for them too. On the flip side,
there are tons of questions that you can pose that do focus on the positive parts of their day too, of the things that they love at school. A good general question,
but that's a bit more specific than how was your day, was when did you feel the happiest at school today? Or when did you feel the most proud of yourself today? I love this one.
I really feel like families fostering a sense of self pride in their kids is so important because it allows them to feel pride even without having to search for that external validation.
You know, oftentimes we become proud of ourselves because someone else has told us, I'm really proud of you. I love fostering that. self -pride is so important, so when did you feel the most proud of yourself today is a great question to ask.
Or something like, did you learn anything today that was like strange or something that surprised you? For small kids specifically, the answers that will come from this question will be hysterical to you.
I think I asked this question a couple of days ago and our oldest started talking about tornadoes. or frogs or the sound of a letter combination that that they learned or whatever. Everything's so new to them.
For whatever reason, when you word it like this, like something that's strange or something that surprised you, even though that question is not much different than what did you learn today, it feels more fun and they're more apt to answer.
Another one that I think is going to be really impactful for families is "Can you teach me something you learned today?" Kids love switching roles and being placed in a role of authority.
If you really want them to explain what they learned, ask them to teach it to you. Or, better yet, their sibling, if their sibling is on board because then they'll be like, "Yeah, I'm going to teach them something." Ask them,
"What did you learn today that you can teach me? I'm really in a mood for learning something. Can you teach me something that you learned today?" It doesn't matter what part of their day you're talking about.
It just matters that you're talking about their day. That's it. If you do want questions that are a little bit more open -ended and aren't necessarily focusing on either the really good parts of their day or the really bad parts of their day,
you can use kind of and /or questions. An example like that would be, "What are you looking forward to the most or to the least tomorrow and give them both options or similarly like what's one thing that you did today that you would love to do again tomorrow or something that you did today that you don't want to do tomorrow or if you could change one thing about today what would it be?
All of these types of questions they can go either way and the answer you're going to get will depend on the day that they had. So it'll give you a good sense of how their day was that day.
Even asking these types of questions at the dinner table kind of in a round robin situation will spark some really amazing conversation within the family because when you're each taking a turn and if parents go first to model it,
the stuff that comes out of their mouths you will be surprised by. Then we've got questions that focus I guess more heavily on relationships that they're creating,
okay, that social emotional well -being of the partnerships that they're making at school, which is a very big part of their school experience, especially when they're young,
because the curriculum, it's eventually going to get harder, it's eventually going to get more detailed, but these are the types of things that the teachers of young kids are looking for in the beginning. How do they interact with others?
How do they interact with themselves? Questions like if you could choose to sit with anyone in class this week who would you choose? I actually asked this one yesterday and it's funny our oldest listed like 12 names.
It gives you a good sense of the people that are in your kids sphere. Clock those names. Really start to get to know the people that your kid is hanging out with.
You'll be able to see if new friendships are budding or maybe other ones are dwindling, you know, staying on top of that without being super blunt about it. It just enables you to understand your kid's relationships more.
This could also be phrased more bluntly, like you could literally just say, "Hey, who were the friends you spent the most time with today? Why?" Or, "Who did you not want to spend time with?" today? Why?
Did anyone help you today? Or did you help anyone today? Kindness goes so far, right? And I really want to know the kids that are in my kid's cohort who are kind,
who are caring, who are helpful, who we want them to be surrounded by. And I want to know if my kid is also being kind and helpful to others as well. This is also a really good one about relationships.
And to be honest, this one kind of feels like it's gossipy. So I hesitate to even say it, but something like, did anyone get into trouble today? Maybe you could preface it by saying,
I don't want to know names. I don't want to know anybody's names, but did something happen that shouldn't have happened today? I mean, friends, the kids will spill the beans on this one.
And you can say I don't want to know the name so that it doesn't get gossipy. It will open up a can of worms here. If you really want to know what happened today,
ask that question. I really also like this one is, is there anyone at school right now that could use some extra kindness? Or did you see any examples of unkindness today?
How did you respond? Or simply, "Hey, what'd you play at recess?" Or "Who'd you play with at recess?" All of these questions are painting a picture for the other kids that your kid is surrounding themselves with and who they're playing with and how those relationships are being built or not being built.
And it allows for that conversation about forming... healthy bonds with others, about how to set boundaries when needed. These questions are all catalysts for eventual deeper conversations with your kids.
And I don't know about you, but I always like knowing what my kids are choosing to do during their free time. Right now, it is all about the stew making. When she first said that,
I was like, what is stew making? They literally just go around picking up parts of nature. and putting it into a big pot and stirring it up with a stick. That's what they're doing at recess.
It's tactile. They want to be connected to nature. They want to be getting dirty with their hands. I like knowing what are my kids doing during their free time? It gives us an idea of their current likes,
their current dislikes. It gives us a sense for the friendships that they're creating. And once they answer this question, there's so much space for follow -up questions to see if any problem arose that they might need help solving or that type of thing.
Now shifting for parents that want to know more about the academic learning part of school but you're maybe unfamiliar with the curriculum that your kid is working on.
First of all you can always communicate with your kid's teacher if you want to get a sense for what they're doing in the classroom. I feel like every teacher would be willing to say, "Yeah, here, let me tell you, in math, we're doing X,
in language, we're doing X, in science, we're focusing on this." There are also just general questions that you can ask that lend themselves to learning about the academic learning that's happening in the classroom,
but they're more specific than just like, "What did you learn today?" But they don't require you to have too much knowledge of what it is they're actually specifically learning. A question that's phrased like this can go a long way.
What did you like better today, math or language? Instead of asking, "What did you do in math?" or "What did you do in reading today?" Asking which one they liked better opens them up a bit more and will likely prompt them to explain why.
Why they liked one over the other and it leads you to getting a glimpse into what they've actually maybe learned that day. And what I encourage people to do is to interchange these with different subjects all the time,
right? Include phys ed, science, French, drama, art, dance, show that all of these subjects are important. And you want to know about all of them,
not just math, not just reading and writing, because if your kid is a student who's really strong in science or drama. but never gets asked about those subjects,
they might feel like it's not important. So let them know that it is. Interchange this question with different subject areas. Another really good question is, did you hear any new words today that you didn't know before?
Of course, you're not going to ask this to like a 16 year old, but for kindies, this is such a fun one. You know, we happen to be in a stage in our household where both of us... girls vocabularies are like catapulting.
So our oldest is always asking like what a word means, right? Their ears are always listening. So if we use a word, she's always saying, Oh, what does that word mean? This question is a great way of helping them build their language skills,
while also allowing any language that might be used on the playground specifically to be explained by you as the parent. and not other five year olds,
right? Like if they learn a word on the yard and then they start to use it, but they're using it incorrectly or it's maybe not a word that you would like them to be using, asking them this question about a new word that they learned today can help create conversation around that.
Another one you can talk about is, did you read a book today? Often primary students, their teachers are going to have what we call read aloud. So those are stories that are read to them aloud.
For the younger, younger kids, it's picture books. And for, you know, somebody who's in grade four, it might be a novel that the teacher reads a chapter every day. I can almost guarantee that if your kid is in kindergarten through even up to,
I'd say like grade six, they generally probably even grade eight will have what's called a read aloud book. So ask them about that. Ask them about what the book's about. Just get them talking about something specific.
This is another good one. If you switch places with your teacher, what would you teach the class tomorrow? I really like this one because it gives you a sense for maybe a topic that your kid is interested in that maybe is not highlighted at school.
And maybe it will be highlighted eventually. or maybe it won't be, but regardless, it's such valuable information. It gives you an idea of what their interests are. Those are a couple of kind of broader questions you can ask about academic learning that maybe don't focus specifically on a piece of curriculum that they're learning.
Lastly, like if you just need it to be a really light question day, something like... did you like your lunch? You know, not did you finish your lunch or did you eat your lunch,
but did you like it? Kids are always down to tell you what they like and what they don't like. Again, it's not about what you're asking them. It's not about getting a specific response out of them.
It's about curating an environment where talking about things is normal. Another really good one, especially for littles and - can you draw me a picture about your day today?" Like if you're really getting the sense that they are not vibing with the question train,
then say, "Hey, draw a picture. Draw me a picture about your day today." Again, it's not about getting a specific answer that you might be looking for. It's just getting into the habit as a family of talking about stuff,
of opening up opportunities to express how you're feeling. You're feeling comfortable to talk about of things so that when they do finally feel like they've got something they really want to share with you,
they know that you're going to be interested. They know that you're going to want to hear it. They know that you're going to listen, whether it's good or bad, easy or hard to talk about,
they know your game. And then lastly, I think I already said lastly, but another lastly, along with asking questions, and I briefly mentioned this at the beginning,
modeling and telling them about your day goes such a long way. So if you start to venture into asking more specific questions in the next couple of weeks and you don't feel like it's going anywhere,
model it first, model it, model it, model it, tell them about your successes that day, your failures, your wonderings, your roses and thorns,
it's the modeling and the exemplar that they need to know. Yeah, we want to hear, we're encouraging each other to share with each other about our day, about what happened,
whether it's good or a bad day. A great tip actually that Mike found years ago was to finish this sentence almost immediately when you see your kid after having been apart for a while.
So whether that's throughout a school day or maybe on a weekend, they went to visit a grandparent overnight and then you're connecting with them again. When you come back to that initial connection after being apart from them, finish this sentence,
"I thought of you today when," and then you got to give some sort of specific example. "I thought of you when I heard someone laugh and they sounded just like you," or "I thought of you when I saw Robin feeding her baby birds," and it reminded me that we have to look in our nest together.
Or I thought of you when the song "Shake It Off" came on the radio while I was driving and I was just picturing you singing it in the back in your happy place. You know, it's just simple,
tiny things. It's letting them know that even when you're not with them throughout the day, they're on your mind. And weirdly, I feel like it gives them a sense of security,
but then it also... makes them think of you and maybe I'm just hoping that's the case, but I feel like then they go throughout their day, they'll go, Oh, I want to tell mom and dad about that when I get home tonight.
You know, it just allows them to know that you're thinking about them during the day and there are things that you want to share with them. So hopefully there are things that eventually they're going to want to share with you too.
Generally, it's just a really good feel good moment. Forever. everyone when you do that, right? It forms bonding, it forms attachment, and these are all things that we want to foster as much as possible when they're little so that when they grow older,
it's just a habit for them. They just always, they feel comfortable coming to you with whatever they need to come to you for. Truly,
my hope is that each family that's part of the flock gets even just one new question today that they feel like they can ask their kid that gets some sort of response that's more than just one word,
you know, there were a lot to choose from today. And some honestly might work great for your kid. Others may crash and fail. And remember, it's a learning curve and it won't always happen.
There are still so many days where I catch myself just asking that stupid age old question like, how is that possible? You know, it's a habit. It's a habit. Everybody just asks each other how we are. And it takes a while to create a new habit and to be able to stick to it.
So it's a process. It's a journey. Try not to give up on it when it's not working right away. Try diving deeper and continuing on that path because I think eventually when we all do that more,
we'll see a huge difference in the conversations being had. in our household. And as we round out this school year, I'd really love to hear back from the flock, like which questions you felt like you wanted to try out right away.
Which ones worked for you? Which ones didn't? I want to know it all. Remember, don't be a stranger. Let me know. Because all of your feedback then helps me in my own parenting and it helps me also create content and episodes.
that feel like they're providing value to you. So I do. I want to hear it all. So connect with me. I also need to let you know right before we go that as these summer months approach,
you will see the schedule for the joyful flamingo podcast change a little bit. I'm giving you a couple of weeks for a warning, but because I'm going to have both my little nuggets home with me during the summer and because hot hubs is.
scheduled gets a little heftier through these months, we also, you know, we've got some family vacations planned. And because of all of those things, we are going to take a pause in production.
It actually aligns perfectly with a full season having been completed by mid June. So our last episode before we take a little break will be aired on Wednesday,
June 12th, and that's going to be our 30th episode, which is a perfect what we're calling a full season one which is basically half a year like a six -month period. After that we'll be taking a few weeks off to plan out the next season to maybe work on some other exciting joyful flamingo brand things and then also to come back to you with a bang when we've got the right amount of resources and time on our hands to
be able to do so. Just know you've still got three more episodes coming your way before we go anywhere, and I'll remind you, but for now, I want you to know I am so grateful for you.
Thank you for being part of our joyful Flamingo Flock, and until next time. Just a reminder, Flamingo Flock, that I am not a medical or psychological professional.
Each one of my episodes has been inspired by my own experience and journey through life and has brought to you through my own opinions and lens. Any suggestions or advice offered here do not substitute proper conversations with your own healthcare professionals for either your physical or mental well -being.