How are you today?
Answering how are you today asks for more than a general check, it means catching this exact day's mood. Many children do not even notice at first that today feels different from yesterday. The pictures below help pin down the day's mood.
♂How are you today?
A boy with a hand on his chest and a question mark beside him wonders how he feels
♂Today
A happy boy pointing at himself under a sun with the word today
About this visual support
Put a plain how are you next to how are you today and a small but important difference appears. That little word today asks the child to compare: am I more awake than this morning, calmer than yesterday, or is something already tugging in my stomach? It assumes you can recognise your own mood and see that it shifts from day to day, which is not obvious for every child.
With visual support, that comparison becomes easier to make. When yesterday's choice is still there to look at and today's is placed beside it, the movement shows, and the child begins to sense that mood is not a fixed state but something that changes.
One concrete tip: make a small morning ritual of the question and let the child pick a feeling picture every day at the same moment, perhaps at breakfast. The pattern over a week becomes both a talking point and practice in reading oneself. To save the day's choice and follow how the week looks, you can use the Routined app.