A lot of people have mentioned answering questions. We like to answer what we can and aren't afraid to say "I don't know, let's look it up." Then we read Wikipe

A lot of people have mentioned answering questions. We like to answer what we can and aren't afraid to say "I don't know, let's look it up." Then we read Wikipedia or watch a YouTube or talk about it. So the first thing is not to squash their curiosity. The second is to train them how to find answers. Right now, we find the answers with our 6 year old but soon he will be able to do it himself. Something people haven't really mentioned, and is hard to do as a parent, is to get out of the way. Give them a problem or a tool and let them get bored. Boredom is the scarcest resource we have nowadays and it is critical to let kids be bored so their natural curiosity can take over and lead them to do things that they want to do, not what they are told.