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How to answer impossible questions from kids
How to answer impossible questions from kids

How to answer impossible questions from kids

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“Why doesn’t Spiderman shoot webs out of his butt like a real spider?”

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  • Kids ask lots of questions. It’s super annoying but in a totally adorable way.
  • Here are some great responses for some of the most common impossible questions that the little monsters like to throw at us when we’re least expecting it.
 

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In reply to an impossible question

“That’s a great question, and I’m going to leave that one to you to answer. Some of the best things you’ll learn are the ones you discover yourself. Let’s go to the library and see if we can’t find an answer to that.”
”You know honey, there are just some questions that even I can’t answer. But that’s kind of fun too, you know? If we knew all the answers to every question there ever was, well, what fun would be in that? We wouldn’t need to read or talk to each other or go to neat places — we do all those things and more because life is constantly asking us questions and it’s our part of the game to try and answer them.”
 
 
 

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