Fostering curiosity in kids (and their parents) since 2011

Posts from the ‘Questions’ category

On an average day, my daughter’s question-to-declarative sentence ratio clocks in at a healthy 5:1. In this section of the blog, I explore what happens when instead of saying “I don’t know,” I say “Let’s find out!”

“Do old warthogs look like Vanderbilt or Mr. Gronko?”

One afternoon, after spending a pleasant half-hour solving mysteries with the various animals on Richard Scarry’s Busytown Mysteries, my four-year-old began to reflect on the realism of the show’s animation. “Mommyo, do old warthogs look like Vanderbilt or Mr. Gronko?” Turns out what she was really asking was whether warthogs have one pair of tusks or two. “Old warthogs, Mommyo.”

In which The Four-Year-Old gains a new appreciation for my age

The Four-Year-Old, interrupting her parents’ discussion of what to do with our out-of-date technology: “Mommyo, do you really have the first Kindle ever made?”

Mommyo, glossing over the fine print* with her usual wild abandon: “Yep. And your Daddyo has the second Kindle ever made.”

The Four-Year-Old, with a gasp: “You’re that old????”

“Why are they called Pomeranians?”

This afternoon, while driving home from a short trip into Brookline, we passed a woman walking a tiny four-legged creature that appeared to be more fur than dog. It was a Pomeranian of course. And although my daughter never quite figured out how to pronounce “Pomeranian” she still wanted to know where the name had come from.