This is one of my best parenting tips ever -
Around age 3 DS started to ask 'why' -
I realized that almost every question could fit into 2 basic answers -
((drumroll))
Nature or Custom
Why can't we have Pizza for breakfast - Custom
Why can't we breath underwater - Nature
So he would ask, I would think, and then say "Nature" or "Custom"
Sometimes that would be all he wanted to know. Other times he would ask more questions about the same topic. I'd come back with -
Well, What do you think is the reason why?
I'd use this to access, what vocabulary does my child know, what concepts has he already figured out for himself that I can 'compare/contrast' with my understanding of the situation.
Then I'd give an answer based on his answer.
We had fun that way.
Sometimes we still joke about 'nature or custom' or try to find a 'why' that doesn't untimately boil down to one of those 2.
We talked about how the nature of humans is usally to defend custom much more fiercely than nature.
Smiles,
Grinity
