{"id":5590,"date":"2010-10-12T07:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2024-05-10T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:40:22","slug":"a-day-of-whys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2010\/a-day-of-whys\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Whys"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading for years about children who are constantly asking “why,”\u009dand I kept wondering when we were going to experience that in our house. Well, the hour has arrived. <\/p>\n

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Photo: Always curious, always thinking, always taking it all in.<\/i><\/p>\n

We generally try to respond to Lucy’s “whys”\u009d with honest answers, although the questions do pile up on each other sometimes in a mind-boggling way. My favorite parenting book<\/a> recommends turning the question back on the child (“Hmmm, you wonder about why the sky is blue. What do you think?”) based on the idea that children sometimes already have an idea of the answer in their minds — but this isn’t often the case in our experience. Sometimes, immediately after you spend considerable time responding to a question, Lucy will ask the exact same question yet again (in a Derek Zoolander<\/a>, “But why male models?” sort of way). I think Lucy sometimes finds the question more interesting than the answer. There is magic in asking “Why do clouds live in the sky?” — but an answer that includes fairies would feel much more interesting than one based on temperature variation and moisture. <\/p>\n

Last weekend, we took our family out for a day in the country for apple-picking and a Wisconsin wedding<\/a>. With all that time in the car, I had the perfect opportunity to record a full day of Lucy’s “whys.” We hope you enjoy the reading as much as she enjoyed the asking!<\/p>\n

There are a lot here, but even so I’m pretty sure we missed some:<\/p>\n