What is the most creative question a child ever asked you?

[meganlynne]

Looking for wacky, poignant, baffling queries from little ones. I'm doing research for a nonfiction book.

But who decided on the colour orange?

It stumped me too ha. I think I tried to explain that it's like this in English but other languages may use different for the colour and the fruit. My son comes up with lots. Mainly YouTube inspired or encyclopaedias. Haha

How do turtles think? I answered 'with their brain' . No mummy how do they think ?

We had been looking at the moon earlier in her grandmas garden, we drove home and when we got out of the car she asked “When did the moon move to our garden?

How do we take our nipples off?

'When people say it's sunny today or its rainy, what is the "its" '.

Last night: Who collects the tooth fairy's teeth when hers fall out? (And continued ad infinitum...)

I worked for 25 years in publishing and never knew a creative writer who explored a research assistant to come up with ideas. Go and develop your own creativity.

'Where do clouds sleep?'

This is the philosophical conundrum known as Wittgenstein’s Beetle. If he couldn’t answer the question then I’m not surprised you can’t!

Can woodlice swim?

Snap! “Where was I before I was before I was born?”

Who teaches the teachers? And who taught them? Who was the first one? Etc etc etc!

Mummy... if babies are borned one by one then how did the first baby get borned?

@Babiesarenotrobots wrong way round I think. The fruit was called naranja in Spanish, turned to orange in English speaking countries and then we started using the word for the colour. Before then there was no word for the colour orange and it was called yellow-red.

I can’t remember where it came up but I only found this out the other day

Does God exist on Frozen? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Would you rather eat poop flavoured ice cream or ice cream flavoured poop.

I got the wrong answer apparently.

2-yo: could you put the baby back in your tummy, just while we’re playing?

3-yo: if carrots make you grow, and you need to be big to go to school, then since [friend] never eats her carrots, will she never go to school?

On the topic of infiinity ad a mathematical concept: when the world ends, will the numbers stop then?

Why do you sleep in the bed with grandpa and is grandpa yours.

I love this question - so clever!

DD had a trouble-maker in her nursery class. Let’s call her Cynthia.

One day, there was a shooting right outside the school building. The kids had to go into a lockdown for a long time while the police cleared the scene.

My 3-year-old described it to me that night: “the teachers turned off the lights, and closed the blinds, and we all sat against the back wall and stayed very quiet and watched Dora the Explorer. The police were cleaning outside. A man got very hurt. Somebody gave him a really big boo boo. He had to go away in an ambulance.”

Silence for a moment as she finished her story. Then a tentative question: “…Mama… did Cynthia do it?”

My 6 year old daughter after religious education class asked,
"If God made everything and everyone, did he also make the people who believe in other Gods?"

From my dd when he was little

Why is a forehead called forehead when you only have one ?