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How to answer the questions of a child and preschool children correctly
Sometimes it seems that the next “why” is just right for the head to explode – after all, questions fly out of the baby, as if from a rapid-fire cornucopia. Everything is interesting for a little why. But questions are not always related to curiosity. Let’s talk about how to behave with curious kids.
Very often the baby asks a question when it is difficult to concentrate and give a decent answer. Especially if the answer needs to be formulated in a couple of simple sentences – after all, he will get bored from lengthy explanations. And how to reduce the essence, you still need to think. But the toddler does not always ask questions to get an answer. He’s still a cunning one, believe me.
Before answering, the essence of the question still needs to be understood.
Sometimes the baby comes to the mother, who is cleaning the apartment, out of boredom. A series of questions immediately begins, each of the following “clings” to the previous one: “What are you doing?” – “My floors” – “Why are you washing the floors?” – “To be clean” – “Why to be clean?” and so on. In the end, the mother breaks down to scream and chases the baby away.
The kid saw perfectly what his mother was doing and, most likely, understands what it is for. But he got bored, and he came to chat. If there is no end to the questions, and anger boils, try to defuse the situation. Give a paradoxical answer to the kid’s question: “I am reading a poem.” Most likely, the kid will be outraged by such an obvious “deception” and shout: “No, you are washing the floors.” Then you can laugh at the joke.
How to answer a difficult question correctly
Sometimes it’s difficult to answer because you don’t understand the essence of the question. The kid is not yet able to formulate the question in the form that interests him. He may ask where the fairy-tale character lives, for example, the Firebird. When mom can hardly explain to him the location of the distant kingdom, the child will stop her and say: “Everything is wrong, she lives in the nest.”
To understand what the baby wants to know, you need to be more attentive to him. Get age-appropriate children’s encyclopedias. There are answers to some burning topics. However, encyclopedias are also an adult’s view.
To understand your child, you need to go back to childhood yourself and look at the world with different eyes.
There is an almost win-win option – ask a counter question. “Daddy, what is this tree?” – “What do you think?” “This is a forest tree. It’s big. “-” You see what a fine fellow you are, he thought and guessed. “
Counter questions serve several functions:
- allow you to “decipher” the question;
- motivate the child to think;
- give the kid a taste of victory.
Asking such questions, parents will learn to better understand the baby and will lay in him, in addition to curiosity, the ability to reason.
Often, the baby’s questions are related to the desire to communicate. By answering question to question, parents stimulate the cognitive abilities of the little one.