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>Asking them to clarify their question either highlights that they actually have no clue what they're looking for That wouldn't be very nice towards them, thou
by CapacitorSet 9y ago
>Asking them to clarify their question either highlights that they actually have no clue what they're looking for
That wouldn't be very nice towards them, though. Many times children ask questions not because they're interested in their particular questions - quite often they don't really have a clue of what they're asking, as you mentioned - but they ask for the sake of learning something.
At least, that's the usual answer to "why children ask so many questions": because they like to learn, more than because they have a specific question.
- perl4ever 9y agoMy own attitude when I was young was probably kind of akin to feeding random input into a program to try to make it crash - how can I find a bug in reality (or the grownups).
- tynpeddler 9y agoI think teaching children to interrogate their own reasoning is the most useful thing you can teach them. I've met a fair number of adults who ask the same kind of nonsensical questions as children do because they don't know how to analyze their own thinking.