Why So Many?
The little man is going through the Why stage, he is close to 3 1/2 and I have been waiting for it to happen. But I don’t think that we were really that ready for it, as now it is here I am going crazy.
“Why are you doing that?”
“What is that for?”
“How come those are there?”
“Why can’t I?”
My favourite ” Why haft I?”
Why so many questions for the same problem. One why would surely be enough? do we really need to ask why 4 or 5 times, it is the same answer you are going to get all 4 or 5 times.
I don’t have an issue answering the questions at all, as that is how the little ones learn, they are just trying to find out the information that they need.
What gets me is the “Why do we need that”, “We need it to make it work” ,”oh”
2 mins later, “Why do we need that” ,”Because we need it to make it work” “oh”
another 2 mins later, same thing.
About the 4th time I try to turn it around and ask him ” Why do you think that we need that?” Just to see if he was actually listening, and to see if he actually has taken the answer in. 9 times out of 10 he gives me the answer that I have given him. So he is listening.
So WHY so many WHYs???
Do your little people ask over and over again to the same question? How do you deal with it, maybe I could try something different.
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November 5th, 2009 at 7:46 am
My little ones haven’t hit that point yet but when my big girl did, I alternated between giving her really detailed answers that bored her to tears after the third or fourth time she asked and….. making things up. Bad mommy moment, I know.
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Kim Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.
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November 6th, 2009 at 5:43 am
Hi there,
WHY? WHY? WHY? Sometimes it is irritating, but we must not forget that they are at an age of exploration and their little brains are like big sponges. The more time you take explaining to them how the world around them works, the better in the long run. I know, I know, they do ask too much, but what can we do? They are little explorers.
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