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What are few tough questions you faced so far from a KID
It's another discussion on my KID series , I already few on KIDs on threads below , where some thoughts of TED community are there
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1535/why_kids_lose_curiosity_in_the.html
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1568/what_about_having_ted_kid.html
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2841/how_should_kids_curiosity_be_h.html
Being naive and curious , kids often come up with very simple but challenging questions.
Was wondering do those questions has got any specific pattern , depending on the culture , society , country they grow up ? Or there are some common basic tough questions as well.
It would be great if share following
1) What are few tough questions you faced from KID/s?
2)What were your answers if you had given one ?
3) Do you think those answers were sufficient meet the curiosity ?
4) What could be a better answer if you think now the answer gave was not good enough?
Well let me give a recent example of such question......
Why countries fight each other ?
I answered sometimes in some country there are bad people , who fight..... by answering so, I found that was a dumb kind of answer as was bombered immediately more questions..........
Looking forward for your active participation............
Closing Statement from Salim Solaiman
It seems KIDs came up with challenging questions at least to them who contributed here may be it matters to them how to face those challenges of KIDs. Thankful to all the contributors.
Now a days as KIDs are far more expose to lot of information sources they can come with very difficult questions, which I faced many times. Kids being our future we need to handle those in a way , so their natural creativity or curiosity doesn't being impacted negatively, and also they get an unbiased fair answer, which should be right to each and every child of humankind.
As @ Debra said rightly as adults we shouldn't fall in the dificulties by giving or setting an example to KIDs which gives the message it doesn't matter if one talks and walks differently. That will highly impact KIDs morality negatively which no rational human being can do.
Wishing for a better tomorrow for Kids of today and tomorrow.........:)
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Debra Smith 200+
Rosemeri Chaney
Salim Solaiman 50+
Ronald Kimani
But our jails are full of the ones that got caught.
Quite a mess that we end up creating..
Sometimes I think parents need to be supervised on how they do this parenting job. We assume we all have the skills just coz we can make babies, or coz we can legally adopt them. In normal situations, we would perhaps hesitate to qualify one as an expert just because they have a natural ability in a certain area or are able to utlize a right to gain a certain social status.
I was once adviced to always speak the trith but keep the language at the level that the child can understand, and when I hit a level that they can't, to be very sincere and respecful and tell my child that s/he will understand better when they are a little bit older. That worked for me when my kids were younger. These days they the ones who get embarrased when I ask questions.. :) HA!!Payback time!! Now I can do this for the rest of my or their lives... seems parenting does have its kicks after all.. :)
Salim Solaiman 50+
Agree what you said.