Sunday 21 April 2024

Kid's Questions Not Answered

Being a mother, i have had questions posed to me by my children which i have been unable to answer, such as who finds Jerry Seinfeld funny and why does Johnny's Dad always go around to see Tommy's Mum after his Dad has gone to work although neither make an appearance in a list of the top 10 questions asked by kids parents struggle to answer.
A study by OnePoll found that on average mum and dad face eight questions a month from their offspring which they find difficult to respond to, either because they don’t know the answer or are too embarrassed although it also found that while 47% of parents just respond with an honest 'I don’t know', 28% try to cobble together an answer while 35% tell the youngster to Google it, 23% Google it themselves with another 23% admitting to just making something up and 11% go for that old of favourite of saying: 'im busy go ask your Mum/Dad'.
The study found 'what does God look like?' is the question most likely to leave parents stumped, followed by 'where do you go when you die?', 'What are black holes?’, ‘why is water wet?', 'why do people die?' and 'how did the world begin?' close behind.
'Where do babies come from?', 'why is the sea salty?' and 'why is the moon sometimes out in the day?' completed the top ten.
Other questions which leave parents scratching their heads include 'why is the sky blue?', 'what makes the earth spin?', 'how do planes fly?' and 'Where does wind come from?'
I did plan to answer all of the above questions but i'm far too busy so go ask another blogger.

1 comment:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

regarding the question "what does god look like?", my response was i do not know...

other than that, until my kids were studying calculus, i was able to answer their questions... except for the ones that scientists can't answer