Parents Describe Their Toddlers' Unanswerable Questions

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mattstaff
Mar 1, 2020 9:00 PM EST

Parents are describing the mind boggling questions that their toddlers asked them. Some toddlers are born into the world, and filled to the brim with questions. They might question everything, endlessly. And some of the questions will seem devoid of logic as we know it. Maybe all that questioning of the way things are is its own kind of wisdom. Who knows?

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  • 01
    Text - blue-waters86 • 2h This isn't a why question, but my kid asked me "what's your favourite stairs?" two weeks ago and I'm still confused.
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    Text - smaysy • 2h My 1st grader asked in front of her entire classroom, why does the Tooth Fairy want my teeth? 30 6 year olds looked at me for the answer.
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    Text - FunetikPrugresiv • 2h O 3 3 Awards Son (pointing): "Daddy what's that?" Me: "that's a cow." Son: "Why?" Me: ...
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    Text - JshWright • 2h "Daddy, are you going to be a boy when you grow down?"
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  • 05
    Text - Pantelima 4h 1 Award Why do I love you so much?
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    Text - zadiraines • 5h Why are things called the way they are.
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    Text - DrTautology • 2h "Why was everything in black and white when I was a baby?"
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    Text - rw_too • 2h My record for answering why questions was 22 in a row!
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    Text - tfwNotPraisingTheSun • 2h Me: I love you! 3 Year Old: Why? Me: Because you're my little boy! 3 Year Old: Why? It's been 2 weeks and l'm still evaluating why. Sent me on an existential journey
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    Text - DaddyGamer1984 • 2h "Whats the smell of the colour nine?" - Daughter back in 2009
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    Text - Text - ShipShipShipShipShip • 1h Obligatory not a parent but I was babysitting a 4 yr old and the child pointed to a cooler out in the backyard and said, Child: "Do you want to go die in that cooler out there?" Me: "No thank you." Child: "Why not? I would enjoy watching that." Me: "Because I like my life the way it is, I'm happy and there's no need to die yet." Child: “Why?" Pretty sure I babysat a future serial killer.
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    White - BlondieBabe436 • 2h Why does the car fart?
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    Text - Ladyughsalot1 • 2h O 3 2 Awards "Why was I in space before your tummy?" ...tell me more kid
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    Text - ChRo1989 • 5h It's not necessarily a single why question, it's the fact he continues to ask "but why" after l've given him a perfectly good explanation to his original "why" question
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    Text - pjmoffat • 2h Who is going to live in our house when we all die?
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    Text - swallowyoursadness • 5h 3 4 Awards 'Mummy why are we alive' Christ it's not even 8am
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    Text - 8ken88 • 2h 3 1 Award Who will be my mommy when you're gone? Tears everywhere.
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    Text - no-money-at-all • 4h My son asks me everyday "why are we on this planet? Why are we here!" Hes four man. What do I answer?!
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    Text - Tupiekit • 3h When I was in the army and back home on mid tour leave my 5 year old neice asked me "Uncle Tupiekit....what is war?" Like shit kid I don't even know that answer
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    Text - SnippySky • 1h My 3yo son most mornings: "where'd daddy go?" Me: "he went to work." Him: "cause why?" Me: "so he can make money so we can have a house and food and clothes." Him: "cause why?" Me: "..." like kid, I haven't even had coffee yet.
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    Text - shapu • 2h My five year old wants to know what was before the big bang.
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    Text - youreawizardhailley • 1h She asked me if employees come to their work on their off day, do they get to use the employee bathroom or the customer bathroom.
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    Text - IndigoMinded • 1h My niece, 5 at the time, asked me who was the first mother.. I was confused and asked "what do you mean? Your mother's mother?" And she goes, "no, my mother's mother had a mother, and then she had a mother too, but how far does it go, who was the first mother?"
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    Text - Wrong_Answer_Willie • 2h Why can't you stay home with me?" "because Daddy has to go to work." "why can't I go with you?"
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    Text - caudron • 1h At 4 yrs old she asked me, "Why is happiness important?* Turns out, it's a surprisingly difficult question to answer.
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    Text - RiledRose • 1h "Why do dragons need arms?"
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    Text - celtic_raider • 2h "Why did the Big Bang Happen?" -my son, after talking about the Big Bang at school.
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    Text - mhamouda2019 • 2h When we go to sleep, where do we go?
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    Text - idealeftalone • 58m Why do we put one leg forward and leg back while walking. Why cant both legs go together. Clearly my 3 year old baby has still not forgotten her kangaroo life of her previous birth
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    Text - Thordane • 1h "Why do we sleep?" "Well, because it's bed time and we're tired" "No, why do we sleep?" ".."
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    Text - aiyahhjoeychow • 1h I remember during the 2008 election I asked my mom why we liked Obama and subsequently disliked McCain and vice versa for the opposite party. She kinda stuttered for a sec and said "Because Obama is a Democrat and we live in California." Then she just walked off like she gave a satisfying explanation Imao
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    Text - Tactically_Fat • 1h When my daughter was 4 or 5, she'd get on a "why" roll. And would just rapid fire questions without ever waiting for an answer. She'd just get that little mouth motor warmed up and off she'd go. So one day, in a bit of daddy frustration, I asked her "why do you ask so many questions?" She looked at me and said "Why do I?" And that was that - and I went to do something else.
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    Text - MetalGodHand • 1h Not a direct answer but related: my younger brother and I are 18 years of age difference, and when I was in my early 20s, he was a small child. He got on the kick of asking me "why" about every god damn thing imaginable. At first I would answer his questions, but it became quickly apparent that he had absolutely no interest in any explanation. He just wanted to hit me with "why?" for whatever reason. After a few months of this, I had enough. So every time I saw him, l'd
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    Text - ohnobobbins • 1h My sister's toddler asked her 'Mummy, what if trees ate all the food?' We still laugh about that one 20 years later.
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    Text - glisters • 1h My son used to regularly trap me with unanswerable questions when I wasn't concentrating. He'd prattle on at great length pretty much ignoring whatever I said and Il'd fulfill my half of the conversation whilst idly thinking about other things until he'd throw in a statement disguised as a question and look for confirmation. For example, "Do you think that Rabbits on the moon can jump higher?" l'd mumble an agreement that yes, I expect they could, and he'd immediately follow
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    Text - laurus85 • 1h My toddler will do this and I keep answering until I get to one of these four places: (1) the creation of the universe (2) one of the four fundamental forces (3) a metaphysical discussion of forms (4) the existence of god When I get here I tell him that I can't answer anything else because l'll just confuse us both.
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    Text - DifficultEvent6 • 1h My 4 year old son asked my wife "Who takes care of babies" since they can't do anything on their own. She told him that mommies and daddies take care of their babies. He asked a couple more questions and ended up on "Who took care of babies when there were only babies in the world", basically asking when the first humans were babies how did they survive. Wasn't ready for such a deep philosophical question, and Google did not have a good answer either.
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