To think toddlers ask the most wonderful but unanswerable questions?

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Here are a few of my best ones from DD age 3 and 3 quarters:

'Why don't sheep have heels mummy?'

'Do wolves like eating raw bacon?'

'Why is fire hot?'

:)

"do dogs know they are dogs?"

I used to get the "what would you do questions?"

DS's favorite questions was " what would you do if you were surrounded by dinosaurs"

Am becoming distinctly worried about DD's lack of curiosity in the world. She's 3 and hardly ever asks questions other than "why are all the biscuits gone?".

lego....love it

Mum's hard of hearing and always thought D.I.S.C.O was B.I.S.T.O and didn't know why they were singing about gravy

I am still wondering where my willy is, since I was asked.

Baby Boo, 3.5 yrs. "Mummy, is this yogurt....erm....ON?!"
Took me a minute or two to realise that "ON" is the opposite of "OFF" and would therefore mean it was safe to eat :o)

My DS 3yo asked me 'Mummy, where is somewhere?'

DS once asked me, if Father Christmas delivers all the presents and Mrs Christmas buys and wraps the girls' presents, then is it Jesus who buys and wraps the boys' presents?

I'm still researching whether cats and tigers have tummy buttons after a question from my 2 yr old

Oh OP, that reminds me of a young innocent friend of mine who was once reading in the back of the car on a family trip, straitlaced Catholic parents in the front. She suddenly asked "What does "ejaculated" mean?" There was a moment of horrified silence before one of them had the presence of mind to ask what the context was. "The stable boy ejaculated" she read out to a further horrified silence. On further probing, the full sentence turned out to be ""Lawks, you can run fast, Black Beauty!" the stable boy ejaculated." (or something along those lines)

Lobsters, I think you should explain that all mammals have tummy buttons, including whales, then watch her mind EXPLODE under the pressure of further questions!

Love these, has given my DH a taste of what he might get from our DC(in a few years as am only 26 weeks) He is mystified by some of them. One of my favourites was a 3 yr old I nannied being told by pregnnt lady that babies move around inside you 'do they crawl up and down your legs too?'

PS can you identify this song, as reinterpreted in a French karaoke bar: "Scot's glove, Scot's glove got to do it? Scot's glove but a second man in ocean?" ...

Tina Turner, what's love got to do with it

DS age 4 asked me as I was tucking him into bed the other night "mummy, how many noses do aliens have?" He then went on to answer his own question with "I think they have 10"

They're not really wonderful or unanswerable, imo. Isn't there a mummy-boast thread you can go on?

No, I don't think so jonnyfan, we're having a perfectly nice time here, thanks.

fantus

(Why are people being so weird about this thread? )

Best question I have had so far - while looking at our wedding photos with the dds,
"so mummy at your wedding you had a party?"
"Yes, we did, it was lovely"
big pause
"So you had a party without us?"
"well it was a few years before you were born"
"oh"
another big pause and puzzlement
"So where was I?"

to my shame I ended up saying they were twinkles in Daddy's eyes which seemed to do!

DitaVonCheese!!!!! Love it!

Oh these are so sweet. I think it's the best privilege to see the world through the eyes of a toddler. DS is 2.5 and we're currently getting bombarded with why and what's that but I can't wait for the questions to get more like these on this thread.

I think we're getting there as he was very concerned last night seeing a clip of John McInroe (throwing his racket) as to why he thought the "tennis" (I.e. Racket) was a ball.

It's not in the same league but I hope we're getting there!

"Where does writing come from?"

"Where was I before I was borned?"

"where was I when you and daddy were babies?"

Brilliant!!!!!

Constant source of amusement....love the "why don't sheep have heels"

I reckon I could come up with some sort of answer for all three