Kids and their Questions

My 4 year old's favorite questions are "what is that?" and once I answer it "What does (insert object here) do?" I've gotten to where I ask him "I'm not sure what do you think it does?" or I'll say "Let's find out together" and show him what it does or show him how to do it himself. He finds it pretty fun but there is one downside: He has now figured out how to put a dvd or vhs in our combo, switch to the right channel on the tv and the vcr , rewind the vhs and press play on either one so if I'm not careful, he will pop in anything he can get his hands on! (I had to put his tapes and dvds on a seperate shelf and the rest are where he can't reach them. My 16 month old points at things and babbles alot lol. I know he's asking questions but I don't know what he's saying! I usually answer him like he's asking the same things as his brother and usually he's satisfied by my answers, there are those times though when he cries cause he can't get his point across and I don't know what to say to him .

I run a daycare in my home and I have the never ending questions coming at me all day long. I try to be very patient and answer them the best I can. Sometimes if the same questions comes over and over again, I try to turn it back on the child and have him answer it instead.

i love kids. from my early days i love them. i also try to answer them as much as I can./ they are just lovely. many questions are such they make no sense, kids are like taht only.

Oh I love kids! And yes, I love answering their never-ending inquiries just about anything their little brains could think of. I think it's sweet that they take notice about me and ask any trivial question like it really concerns their lives. I have nieces and they're really cute. When I visit them, they always ask questions like "Don't you still have a baby Mama May?" or "When will we see your baby Mama May?" or "Why don't you make your baby now? Is it hard? Can I help?" Hahhaa! Aren't they cute? I love all the attention I'm getting from the kids, they even vie for my attention most of the times but I make sure they don't fight. Sometimes, I go crazy and naughty that I tease them with my answers so they would be tickled and want to ask more questions. Like when my niece asked me "Have you received flowers from a boy when you were 6 years old Mama May?" Knowing that someone has given her flowers, I would fake a sad face then I would answer "Sigh! No, I didn't, I guess I was ugly then" Then my niece would ask "Do you think I'm beautiful Mama?" I will then tell her "of course darling, you are beautiful". I'll choose not to ask her "Why, did someone gave you flowers?" because I'm pretty sure she's expecting me to ask that and she's dying to discuss it and boast about it. Then she can't take it anymore and then tell me "Uhhmm, someone gave me flowers" Hahhaa! These kids! They're really cute! I love answering their questions, I do so truthfully, but I sometimes can't stop teasing them, I enjoy my times with kids... I love babies, I love kids!

I love kids and I have two kids. I think that's what kids usually will do. Ask all sorts of question in detail and expecting to know the anwsers. I will tried to answer their questions most of the time, sometime I will get impatient and aske them to stop asking.

I do like kids, and what I like about them most is their insatiable curiosity. Yes, I would have answered their questions as honestly as I could and would have laughed about it with them

Hi torchablazed kids are a bliss to be with. I have two nieces and a nephew and I just love their company. They are a fun to look at. The expressions, gestures, sayings all are so original, uninhibited and honest. All so transparent! You know what, its important to answer to whatever query they throw on you and even the weirdest of questions should to be answered and explained. And also I try to be truthful with it. For once they find out that you are lying they start to lose the trust and respect. We must not help to step in to the big bad world so soon. Already they are losing their childhood too soon! Thanks.

i do love kids and having a conversations with them. coz it's shows the innocents in them. answering their questions truthfully but into their level of understanding. i mean we need to be true to them as they will bear it mind until they grew up and i don't want to be blamed for them in believing of a lie and be called as a liar.

Hello torchablazed, I love kids especially those who are just started talking. I love their acts. I have a 23 months old son who always act to get our attention. He loves to talk (in fact he is just mumbling) and always find way how to attract other people's attention.

The kids are innocent. It is precious.

oh yes i know exactly where you comin from. I have a niece who i adore..i generally spoil her to the core so she is very close to me. She asks the weirdess of questions most of the time. sometimes it gets real ambaressing and i do not know what to say. she is too smart not to buy the fact that i know the answer but do not wana give it to her.i try my best to be as diplomatic as possible though. I feel it is good kids asks questions and we should try to be as clear as possible so they dont go out there and hear wrong stories...

Oh I love children! To me they are the cutest creatures on earth. I love to be with them. I love their innocence so much. Well most kids are fond of asking question about this and that and they never tire from doing so. Sometimes, I am the one who gets tired and ran out of answers. But as much as possible, I answer their every question and I make it a point to answer them truthfully. I don't lie to children. I don't answer on the basis of my imagination but based on fact although that would sometimes be hard for them to understand. I just try to make the explanations simpler to fit their young minds. I think I owe it to them that I be honest in answering their questions. I just imagine how they trust and depend on me on questions they want clarifications so I believe I should never deceive them with fabricated information. Afterall, I was also a kid once upon a time.

Hello torchablazed This is a interesting question.I am so glad to discuss here.I of course love the kids.They are the beautiful and pure angel.I also would like to talk with them.Even though they are ignorant to adult.I never think they are silly to me,I think they are the cute and honest kids.No cheating from the kids' mouths.Of cvourse, i also answer all the question to them if they ask.even though some ones are ludicrous.But i always answer them perfectly.lol good luck

I love kids! In fact I have three now they are ages 5, 4 and 3 months. To the questioning part, yes they do question a lot. My first born is the most notorious on this. I actually posted some of his questions here. He asked the most bizarre questions there is. The bad part is he won't believe your answer unless you really have prove it to him. That would mean a long debate, a picture to support your case and a experience to back it up (it means that you have related the topic on his own experience or that one time or another he had experienced it)Ok one time he asked us how 'real' babies were made. We told him he was asleep then, know what happened? he gets mad at us saying the next we make babies we should wake him up Now another time he asked me how are hair grow, so I posted a discussion here about that and I try to explain him (courtesy of a fellow mylot) how the hair grows out of our head from tiny tiny holes, now he wants to see those holes. Isn't he curious or just a pain in the a. Mind you every night we goes on a long debate about this and that and that. Sometimes though he would ask a question just to confirm what he was thinking, he would ask but actually he already knew the answer. Most of the times I tried to be patient with all his queries, but if he keeps on debating me I sometimes can't control my temper. but hubby says it's a good thing that he is assertive of what he is thinking. And lastly, as much as possible I answer his inquisitions truthfully in his language of course, I don't want him to grow thinking things or believing into things that are not true.