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How do you answer your child's 'why' questions? |
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What do you do when your kids ask questions that you can't answer? Do
you brainstorm with them about possible answers before looking it up
together? Do you teach them how to research it on their own? Do you
sometimes just confess that you don't know? We'd love to hear about how
you handle an endless string of why-why-why!
I think it's important to show kids how the answer can be found. Even if they're too young to look it up themselves, show them how you go to the library or the computer to search for your answer. I'm trying to teach them early on not to let their questions go unanswered.
I liked Cynberg's answer. It teaches children how to get knowledge, and in this sense it empowers them. When I can I like to ask questions that get them see if by changing their perspective whether they can answer the question for themselves. So for example if kids know living things need to eat and they want to know how trees grow I will ask them questions to get them thinking. Later they can check to see how close they came to the answer.
First thing is we all are appreciate our children to raise questions about something. mostly we din't know the 50% of answer about their questions. But it is not a problem. At these moments we accept the real factor (i.e., i din't know the answer , and try to find it and tell you later.) It is very useful to us to improve our knowledge. Because you must search the correct answer about the question. And another thing is " your children roll model mostly as their parents. So that we can give a best feed to digest knowledge of them. and also we create a best roll model of them. In case we suppressed them to ask questions and other things It was very difficult and create stresses to that children. So we accept and encourage all about the questions raised by them and try to tell correct answer of it.