What is the day today? Why there are more work days than family day? Why are you working? What happen when you are going to work?
How do plants grow? What does pineapple grow from?
How do we come out from your tummy?
Why is Lola dead? Where is the Lord? Where is heaven?
These are just few or the many questions my kids randomly ask each day. Eilan is 6 years old and Lianne is 4 years old, and they both seem not to run out of questions. They will ask one question, you will answer and they will ask more.
Moms, daddies, parents and adults like me can really relate to this scenario. Everyday, kids are having so many questions, some of which we do not expect for them to ask. More often we became irritated with those especially when we are doing something. We became impatient in dealing with them.
So why kids are always asking questions? According to curiousworld.com, based on survey, children makes at most 73 questions a day, children ask questions because they are curious to know things, seeking answers on their observations and the desire to know the reasons of things. I can still remember the psychology lesson I had way back in my college days, the lesson of Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa is a theory that the mind is like a "blank slate", in an empty state at birth and that blank slate will be filled with knowledge through experience and perception(Meriam Dictionary).
With this theory, I can say that the kids are starting to fill in that blank slate with answers of the questions they ask. And that's the primary reason why we should handle the questions with grace and truthfulness, because those kids will really believe our answers regardless if its wrong or right.
I listed some of the techniques in handling questions and these are based on my experiences.
Listen to the child's questions. I often became guilty of this, when my child ask and I am doing something, I just nod or say yes, even if I am not really listening to the question. My son will say, "Mama you are not listening". It is important that we should listen to what these kids are asking, it will allow them to fell valued.
Answer the questions as best as we can. As I said earlier, children will believe what adults will answer regardless if its wrong or right. Giving misleading, unserious answers will not help our kids. If we cannot explain it properly, we should make a good excuse, rather than giving an unserious answer.
Tell them nicely on when to stop asking. There should be a time that we will make them stop asking questions for that time but is should be said in a nice manner. I usually cut the many questions by saying "Ok this is the last question". Sometimes kids haggle for 2 last questions.
Teach them to ask properly on right timing. This is related to training. We should teach our child to properly ask on the right time. For an instance, if I am talking on phone or to someone on personal, I am asking my kids to wait for their turn or say excuse and not to interrupt with the conversation with their questions.
CONCLUSION
Children are always asking questions and we should be happy that they do because it's only normal for them to ask. It's because they are curious and that they have that desire to know how things worked in this world that we live in. Let us just always bear in mind that when answering questions, we should answer and handle those questions properly because kids believe what we are saying.
I took a break for my Travel Blogs and make this article as part of the Writing Prompt #5: Questions of @JonicaBradley . It just pop-up in my mind to write something related to the topic, also inspired with @meitanteikudo in his article Can I Ask You Something?.
Some related articles with the same prompt.
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Reference : Why do kids ask so many questions?
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