I was wondering if we could have a discussion on how to have the best parent interviews. I usually do okay in mine, but today I have just completely stuffed one up. My brain went completely blank, absolutely no words came into my mind at all, not even irrelevant off topic stuff, just completely blank. The parent I was interviewing was very shy too, and I had no other children here, so there was a whole lot of silent standing and watching her little one play. Little one was very shy and wouldn't talk to start with so sitting down and playing with her would have only made it worse. By the end I was playing with her, but only after a lot of uncomfortable silence.
I know I can't be the only one to have a crisis of confidence during an interview (not a crisis of my ability, but a crisis of adult to adult skills lol) so how about we all work up a cheat sheet for parent interviews.