What Happened, What Next
Tap cards into a row to build a chain: what happened, how someone feels, what they might do and what happens after.
About 6 to 12 · Linking an event to a feeling, an action and what follows from it.
Build a chain
Something happens and someone feels it. They do something, and then what?
Three cards: what happened, how they feel, what they do.
Answer your way. Tap it, point to it, say it, sign it, or show a card or device. Every way counts the same.
For grown-ups
Away from the screen: After something happens today, tell it as a chain: what happened, how you felt, what you did, then what.
Every feeling a child picks counts as a feeling. Different people can feel different things about the same event, and all of those feelings are real.
- Easy
- Three cards to put in order.
- Medium
- Four cards in a row, with one card to pick and fill in.
- Hard
- The same event, felt two different ways by two people. Build either chain.
- Start on Easy, even if it looks too simple. Success first, then move up when your child wants to.
- Say the lines aloud together. Hearing a phrase in a real voice is the point of the game.
- These are common patterns, not rules. Your child's own way of talking is real talking.
- Wait a little longer than feels natural. Quiet thinking time is part of it.
- If they pick something you did not expect, ask them to tell you about it. Their reason is often interesting.
- Pointing, signing, a device or a picture card are all real answers. Speaking is not the goal here.
- Stop when it stops being fun. A few minutes, often, beats a long sitting.
A game and a starting point, not an assessment. All Talking Together games