ETA: This method works great for math, science, history, etc topics. But it is very difficult to explain cultural aspects and "gray" areas this way.
Well, my DD likes those best of all-- because there it's a vast territory of grey area waiting to be explored...
endlessly, --er, or until her
victim target's energy flags, or the person manages an escape.
"Have you ever thought about..."
"Have you ever wondered..."
"Hmmm-- yeah, but what would happen if..."
Often she opens like this with some observation about world politics, human geography, environmental/political/economic theory, religion, etc. Or best of all, some intersection of them.
She has been doing this since she was about 3yo. It seems (to me) to probably be the quality that made it so difficult to consider her a young child unless you had her in your line of sight. If you were working on the bench or in a hood while you chatted with her, eventually she'd slowly turn up the level of the discussion until you were both working on an adult intellectual level before you knew it.
