What do you do, when you can not answer questions from your children?.

Like Hatlety said, this is a great opportunity for you and your son to research questions you don't know..Kids need to see that parents don't know everything, that they are human too and by doing this together, you both learn and have a good time learning together//:)

I think you are wrong in your child answer the question, should he get the right answer from you. Why? Because he will always remember always the answer to the question he asked his parents. Should you give the right answers to him so that he understands and will remember it later. Every parent answers to questions that he would give him make provision to deal with later life.

Hello, The right answer would be "You will know for yourself when you learn to read your science books." This way you not only avoid the embarrassment but also induce interest and curiosity in your child. This will encourage the child to learn. There are other ways too. I personally, look for the answer, understand it myself and then tell it to the child in simplest form. Thanks. God bless you.

Yesterday my 6 yr old daughter asked me why the girl (on TV) has a baby when she is not married. My husband was there at that time so I asked her to ask her father. My husband quickly offered her some food which managed to make her forget her question. Hopefully she will be older when the same question pops up.

As parents we are looked at as the person with all the answers. Normally I would say something like I think it is because and then I have interacted with my child and together we have learned something after searching the internet. I make a silly game out of the situation and and say Wow we have learned something new today. This way my child does not walk away as if I did not have any answers and then does not decide to ask me further questions.

There are really questions that I have to be silent, think and try my best to answer that my daughter can understand in her level of thinking. Of course there are follow ups questions that's why I need to be careful in using words.

I guess I would've said "I don't know, lets go look it up..." after all, you can find almost anything on the internet

I am still single and no kids so am free of such a confusion.I dont know what my mummy did when i was rowing up.Its been many years and i dont remember what she did when i made her confuse.

just answer naturally. do not give your children lies. if it needs you to tell them you dont know the answer, then tell them. or you can say that someday he will learn to know the answer when he grows up. sort of like that.

Why not use it as an opportunity for BOTH of you to look up the information? Although many prefer to go online; I took my children to the library. It provides a chance to learn how a library works; gives them almost endless ways to look up information; provides additional books they might never have thought to use; and provides time together. Never lose a chance to teach and spend time with your children. They are gone way too soon.

I do not have kids, but I think I'd try and teach them something. Have you ever met someone who can't say they don't know? I wager you know the type of person I mean. The kind that if they don't know the answer they simply make up some wacky stupid answer. It's a pride thing of some sort. No one likes those people. You can't trust them. Because if they make up answer when they don't know, how do you know they are being truthful? You don't. So if I were you, I'd tell your child "You know, I really don't know the answer". Teach them to be able to say "I don't know" if they don't. Be truthful even if you don't know.

For me it is not bad if you can't answer correctly as long as you can explain the answer of there question.

I used to teach catering, and the first rule was not knowing all the answers but being able to find all the answers!! When my son asks me something I can't answer I get him to look on the internet or in books with me and we find the answer. Children do like to realise that their parents DON'T know everything and it's good to for them to see that their parents are not perfect!

Be happy to have a son like that, it only means that his mind is working and wanted to learn new things. If he ask question again, just say what you know and then tell him that you will do a research for that question and by the time you arrive from work don't forget to tell him what's the real answer with his question. Or you can do the research both..Doing that is a great bonding for you and your son. Good luck. :)

Children with their inquisitive minds view their parents as walking encyclopedia. Parents should therefore be prepared for smart answers to any question asked by their children. Entertain yourself by reading lots of books that can arm you with wide knowledge to feed the minds of your child.

Hi Indahfth, If I honestly did not know the answer to some of my kids questions then I would direct them to look them up. When they were too young to do research then I looked the answer up for them. I would tell them that I had to do some research and get back to them and then I would.

i don't have kids yet but i have little nephews and nieces who ask questions a lot, difficult or not. if they don't get a satisfying answer from me, they keep on asking until i make everything a joke to them. sometimes i turn to my parents or their parents. hehehe..

Now days all questions like that get sent to the Internet for answers.

I´m a grandmother now, but I remember up to now some of the imposible questions my children asked me way back then. I remember the worst. I was helping my eldest daughter with math in her first days of school. The idea was to add 1 plus 1 and understand that it was 2. It proved to be awful. She asked me why was the 1 named that way? I know now, after studying language at the university. But even the answer I know would not have helped any as she could not grap abstractions then. I learned to say: I will look it up to see if someone knows. Happy posting!

I have two kids, my elder kid is a girl,she is 5 years old now. she is very talkactive. if she wants to know something she always ask. and sometimes i couldn't answer. it doesn't mean that i don't know the answer but the answer is not suitable with her age. for example she asked me, from where a baby come out. i just aswered that the baby came out from the stomach. and she believes me because she saw my sister inlaw's stomach. she just gave birth by caesar operation. it is complecated.