[This one is quick and easy :-)]
Each person gets to ask anything they want & the others (usually the grownups) do their best to give a meaningful and relevant response.
Here are the questions M&B asked the first time we played (they were about 5 & 3 years old at the time):
- Why do men not cry as much as women?
- How do plants drink?
- How does the second hand move around the clock?
- How are the things we use (like plates and houses) made?
- How do doors open when you turn the knob?
- How do you make soap?
I think this game has helped set the stage so the kids feel that they really can ask anything. Shortly after Little T was born, M asked: "Mom, I understand that it takes an egg and sperm to make a baby, and that the egg is in Mommy, and the sperm is from Daddy.... How do they get together?" -- Let's just say I wasn't prepared...
here are a couple of questions my little T. has asked -
why do grown-ups always cross the street when the light is still red.
why can't I go outside with no clothes on?
why does R. (same aged cousin) always ask why when he's told to do something (this one raised an eyebrow).
who was babysitting me when you and daddy got married?
Posted by: EN16 | August 03, 2006 at 07:15 PM
One of the best questions we ever got was right before bed time, "Dad, what's Karma?"
:)
Posted by: Doree | August 16, 2006 at 10:22 AM