hey listen, my 7 yo nephew just asked the other day why we had to spend money to get fake money in games and oh BOY did I have a whole speech ready for that one hehehe
Well you see, uh...
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trainsrkool@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The floor can because of gravity.
What’s gravity?
It is what causes everything to fall down.
Why does it do that?
Because everything weighs something, and the more something weighs, the more it causes other things to be drawn towards it.
Why does that happen?
It’s the way the universe is made. If it weren’t for that, the world wouldn’t exist.
Why wouldn’t the world exist without gravity?
Because without gravity, nothing would stick together.
What is nothing?
Nothing is what you see when you close your eyes, but you’re not there to look at it.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
MY MOMMY SAID THE FLOOR MAKES FAT PEOPLE STICK TOGETHER!!
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s how planets were formed!
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Mine is just starting to say a couple words and I’m quite excited for these conversations.
Enekk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What you’ll discover is that there is often a very weird something behind the question. It is often as important to understand what that thing is as it is to answer the questions. The problem is that you can’t directly ask that lest they shut down.
The problem is that a question like, “how can the floor” might be related in the kiddos mind to something as seemingly unrelated as “why did we eat hamburgers last week?” and if you go down the wrong path, suddenly your kid has a link between hamburgers and orbital motion that doesn’t necessarily link up in any real logical way.
My approach is not to just answer questions, but to help them think through their questions and how they might answer them. No clue if that works.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Later that week on the playground: and my dad said your mom eats so many hamburgers that she causes orbital motion around her.
toynbee@piefed.social 2 months ago
My sister says the trick to deal with this is to respond with something like “well, what/why do you think?”
I’ve gotten mixed results with this approach.
toynbee@piefed.social 2 months ago
You missed the most important and inevitable part.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My daughter went through the “why” phase for a while when she was 3. I do my best to answer them because it’s a fun game. She’s trying to learn, and I’m here to teach her. At one point we got to the topic of our dog and she was like “Why is he a dog”
That one stumped me for a while before I hit her with “because his parents are dogs”. And then she went right for the “who are his parents” and that spun off into questions about dog breeding and how they used to all be wild wolves… It’s fun.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
No I meant why is he a dog and not a hound like in other Germanic languages?
toynbee@piefed.social 2 months ago
I once put this song on when I thought my kid wasn’t paying attention:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BLzxuIfD9rU
After ignoring most of the song, they suddenly looked up and said “Daddy, what is reality?” I admit I was completely unprepared for that question.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
While you stand on it and never think how can the floor.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
My 6 year old: how do you make people
Me: well, when there’s a mum and a dad…
6 year old: no, where did the first person come from?
Me: oh god can I just tell you about the birds and the bees I at least have a chance of properly explaining that one
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
3 year olds :
Why’s this?
because this that and the other
why’s this?
sharktoes@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
My 4 year old is autistic and his special interest is space. We read a fun kids book about neutrinos the other day and he started asking me questions like “where do they come from”. Idk bro, I only have an arts degree. I wish he would ask easier questions ! I’m not a theoretical physicist
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I mean you could look these things up together
sharktoes@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I do and I’ve been trying to get books to learn more with him. It’s a learning process for the both of us.
Johanno@feddit.org 2 months ago
Tell him you don’t know, but keep him interested and suggest who you could ask. Or look it up.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
neutrinos going through earth are mostly from the sun
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Also toddlers:
Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”
Toddler: “Because I needed to.”
Me: “Why did you need to?”
Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”
Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s the difference between a duck
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A perfect opportunity to explain antagonistic coevolution!
bampop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“That’s not even a…” < gets headshot by sniper >
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Floor can because it is
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
If I were a parent I wouldn’t answer questions like these.
Instead i’d ask “why do you think it is?” and use that as a teaching moment about how to do research and how to test a hypothesis.
protist@retrofed.com 2 months ago
“Dada, can you teach me how to read?”
“Figure it out yourself.”
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I mean I think i’ll be a more gentle mom than that, but essentially, yeah. Kids are actually super great at learning. If they already show interest in something, they just need support and guidance, not someone to do it for them.
DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The most profound / complex question ever: why?
farmgineer@nord.pub 2 months ago
I’d definitely go with pressure over water-bath.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
“Because.”
darkmogool@feddit.org 2 months ago
yes
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
they have unlimited curiosity, and unlimited love and respect for you. they don’t just want to learn they want to hear you talk.
for fucks sake, do not squander that special time.
no one will ever look up to you with such love admiration and respect again.
Treat every question as if it is the most important philosophical question of this generation. Because for them it is. do your thought out loud, teach them how you think.
They are humans with full human intelligence, just less experience.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’ve unironically had entire existential crises over noticing someone younger than me at work or volunteering looking at me with a similar respect. Nothing says I’m having a great time like having someone’s confidence in you create doubt.