To think toddlers ask the most wonderful but unanswerable questions?

[doradaisy]

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?'

:)

"Why do trees live longer than people?"

I launched into a really long explanation and was cut off with "why do they get so tall?" clearly my answer wasn't interesting enough.

Kids are funny...bright too...with very enquiring minds!

They sometimes seem to think adults have all the answers and know everything....we just don't

how do you make tomatos?

i explained the you plant the seed etc... no! how do you make them, not grow them!

not really of the same caliber but.....my kids think that I am the ACTUAL tooth fairy (long but very funny story for another time) so was posed the question, "mummy, do you have special fairy magic so you can get round the whole world before breakfast?" erm......yes in actual fact sweetie I do :)
Am I bad t lie to the kids

'If time didn't exist, could you open a door?'

In a well-timed fashion, ds has just asked how he came out of my tummy. He looked slightly shocked when I explained that the doctor cut a big hole and pulled him out, but nowhere near as shocked as when I answered his next question - how did he close the hole up? "Well ds, he got a big stapler and stapled it shut" complete with stapler demonstration

holyschmoley - kind of cheating as it's not strictly true, but I reckon it would have satisfied him

ditavoncheese - My guess is that people are being weird about the thread as it isn't really an AIBU - it should be in Chat - so the wilder elements of aibu are annoyed by its existence. Cos otherwise it's an incredibly innocuous thread to have attracted so much shoutyness isn't it?

Gilbonzo - kerrist, how old is he? You've probably scarred him for life

" Is Foucault a planet"..........sounds like someone was not listening when they were having their science briefing/ were being primed by their parent prior to sitting behind me on a plane. I think it is stealth boasting again!

... or they could just be looking for a fight. Jonnyfan, if you really want a barney, LeQueen is currently displaying her prodigious history knowledge over here. Go and tell her she's boasting, then report back to us about how THAT went.

Dora, perhaps this should be moved to Chat?

Haha this thread is brilliant (except for all the unnecessary drama)!!

From dd when she was about 2

"what colour is that White one"?

Cue 1 hour long conversation with her arguing that White isn't a colour.

Many moons ago when my youngest daughter was probably 6 or 7(she's 24 now and a teacher) we as a family were walking round the Science Museum in London. She suddenly shouted at the top of her voice "daaaaad, what's an an orgasm?" What she had read was a display on organisms..

Anyway, told her....ask your mother.

(an anyone who has read some of my previous posts will see the double humour)

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