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Children persistent ” why’s ” and “how come?” show that these kids are thinking. Answer must be honest and not tossed off in ignorance or exasperation for soon enough the kid will lose interest in inquiring. What happens through when you get stumped with a questions as ” What is happens though when you get stumped with a question as ” What is Halley’s comet?” or ” How come boats don’t sink?” and adults can’t really explain the what or the how of it?
Do you say, look it up in the encyclopedia ( which I often do with my 10 years old son, to teach him to be independent) or start a lengthy exploratory discussion on the subject. Ideally, it would be good to discuss the answer using a wide range of references- your own information background and others people’s as reference materials. And perhaps in the end, the adult will learn much more from the exploratory scheme than if he left the research to the child alone.