Tonight with your 5 to 8 year old

The prompt

“Has listening to someone else ever changed your mind about something? What happened?”

What to listen for

If they can recall a real example, they're developing the flexibility to update their own thinking instead of just digging in, a genuinely rare and valuable skill worth celebrating clearly.

If they insist they never change their mind, that's common at this age and not a red flag, you can share a time you changed yours, modeling that it's a strength, not a weakness, to be persuaded by a good reason.

If they say "I don't know," that's fine, this is a big, abstract question, and just planting the idea tonight is enough.

What this tells you

This shows how open they are to other people's perspectives, which is at the heart of resolving conflicts well later in life.