5 Frequently Asked Questions Children Ask Their Parents
JAKARTA – Children often ask questions that make parents pause for a moment to think about the answers. These smart questions make parents need to think about formulating logical and reasonable answers. Has your child ever asked a question that was difficult to answer?
This is a sign of a child's intellectual development. You don't need to cut the question off, but you need to spark his imagination and creativity to keep it growing. So, what questions often make you pause to think about the answer? Here's a list of common questions that children ask.
"Why don't dinosaurs exist anymore?"For smart parents, of course looking for the answer takes a while to remember about the theory of evolution or changes on Earth. Advice Matthew T. Carrano, Ph.D., curator of Dinosauria at The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, dinosaurs let children's imaginations grow.
“Dinosaurs can often connect children with broader scientific concepts,” says Carrano.
According to him, use this opportunity to talk about the environment or evolution. For example, explain that dinosaur fossils show that they were the ancestor of chickens and other birds. Why not today, because about 65 million years ago a massive steroid collided with Earth and caused the dinosaurs to be unable to adapt and eventually die.
This question is often asked by children when they are reluctant to leave playing in the water or taking a bath and getting dressed. If your child asks this question, let them know that humans need to cover some private parts of the body. This is why people wear swimsuits when in the pool and close the door when urinating.
The advice of family therapist, Hal Runkel, is to take advantage of this question by explaining the safe boundaries of which body parts are off limits to outsiders. This can also be a good opportunity to model caring behavior and a normal understanding of the body.
"Why do people get sick?"You can provide answers to these questions with simple but logical explanations. For example, by telling a child, getting sick is usually due to germs, bacteria, and viruses. These tiny creatures unseen by the human eye find their way into the body. Often it hurts because the body can't fight it, so it hurts.
According to parenting advisor, Darshak Sanghavi, MD., parents can explain that the most serious illnesses usually don't occur until old age. Diseases suffered by children can usually be easily treated. Such as by eating healthy food, taking medicine, and getting used to washing hands to ward off germs.
"Why can't you sleep too late?"Limiting screen time in children, it is inevitable to receive various questions that need to get reasonable answers. As is the case when the baby asks 'why can't you sleep too late like father/mother?'.
You need to give an answer based on the body's mechanism, that the body needs to rest after a day of playing. The brain also needs to rest early so that the next day you can wake up earlier.
“Why are there so many languages in the world?”No need to be confused if your baby asks this question. You can tell that since thousands of years ago, humans lived all over the Earth and lived in groups. So they find their own words to describe their lives. Languages also evolve over time, just as English was spoken 500 years ago.
If the child complains that it is difficult to understand another language, accompany and help the child to understand it.
In addition to the 5 general questions above, has your child ever asked a question that took you time to answer?