Answering Children’s Questions

All the tikeren are very curious and they always ask a muckle of questions because they want to know a lot of things. Where does water come from? , why is the sky blue? and what is infinity? are among the questions that parents struggle to answer for their baby birdren. Another doubt that has tripped up mothers and fathers for generations is, where do babies come from? Most parents are unable to give a correct answer to the basic questions from baberen about the planet, outer space and the mankind body.Some of them say that babies are delivered by storks, others that babies are found under gooseberry bushes. Also parents find moral questions about God and religion ruffianly to answer. I think that every parent should follow some principles answering childrens questions, and the first of these principles is Never to lie. Because children are very quick-witted and they may think so If you found me under a gooseberry bush it means that someone had left me there and who is th is someone? It would me much more rough to answer.The second thing is that we all must learn till we live. And if we dont know something its never late to learn. So if a child asks What is a black hole or something like that, it would be appropriate to say Lets look that up in the encyclopedia. So we back end show the child the way he can learn things and encourage him to seek response through authority in the future. One more thing we can do is encourage brainstorming, or consideration of alternative explanations. For example, if a child asks Why are all the people in Holland so tall? , the parent can answer Lets brainstorm some possible answers. Maybe its genetics, or maybe its diet, or maybe everybody in Holland wears elevator shoes, or etc. And then the child and his parent can decide which answer is the right one. We should never avoid answering the childs question saying I dont know because the child has nobody except his parent to ask. Answering childrens question gives us an opportunity to revive the child in ourselves, awake our fancy and help the little one to understand the world better.