We know that children and drunks always tell the truth, we also know that your children will probably put you, more than once, in those kinds of situations in which you would like the earth to swallow you. What are we going to do, they are a job, one day it will happen to you and it will probably be at the most inopportune moment possible, as it is something we will not even see it coming.
But there are other types of questions that your children will ask you sooner or later, they are a dozen complicated questions that you should be prepared for. None is easy to answer, even some of us may not have the answer they would like, but we still have to answer.
Are you going to die?
We start with one of the toughest questions you can ask a parent, especially since you know that the answer is neither easy nor pleasant (assuming you don't want to lie, of course). There is even an even tougher variant that is when your child asks you "And I'm going to die someday?" To the difficulty of responding to something so hard we must add that the understanding of the answer will depend on the age of our child.
Who do you love more… ?
To my brother or me, to dad or to me, to grandfather or grandmother… there are endless possible combinations. It is clear that if the question is whether we love one brother or the other the answer will be that there is no difference, that we love them equally, but this question should put us on guard, because it probably contains behind a "I feel you don't pay me enough attention" And maybe part of our answer should look for that second question and I say I should because I also think it is important that she or he himself be aware of her feelings.
Why do boys have tails and girls don't?
A classic questionnaire for children, why aren't we all the same? With how simple it would be to be everyone the same and suddenly, it turns out that naked we have different things.
How are children made?
If you have been asked the previous question, depending on the explanation you give, it is very likely that it will come behind.
Well, that each one applies the degree of reality they want and as they see the maturity of their children, but think that the thing about flowers and bees ends up being very bad.
How much money do we have? We are poor?
There comes a time when children understand that money does not grow by spontaneous generation and that dad and mom have to work to get money, but what they have trouble understanding is why there are things that can be bought and others that cannot. it is interesting that parents buy certain things from their friends and not theirs or vice versa and they begin to ask questions, often promoted by what they see and hear in their environment, about poor children and their situation .
At certain ages children tend to be quite selfish and their phase of the "I" and their self-centeredness can mark the question so that they do not understand too well that money is not always available for us to buy everything they want or for us to go to the amusement park all month or vacation year-round.
What will happen if dad and mom stop loving each other?
One of the biggest fears of a child is to lose his family. It is logical, because until a certain age his world revolves around her, especially around her parents. Also, divorces between couples and children who do not have their parents together at home are more common every day, these things end up being commented on at school, or are seen on TV and will make our children wonder what will happen if that same It happens to them.
None of us can put our hands on the fire and ensure that dad and mom will always be together and in these cases it is always best to make it clear that even if their parents stop being together, he will not lose either of them and please, Don't you think to tell him that he will have double gifts.
Who is God?
In our country, religion is still very present in the lives of our children and we must not forget that our society is mostly believing, in one god or another, so everyone must be willing to answer the question with simple, adapted concepts For the age and our son. Also, even if we are atheists, we must explain that there are those who believe in them.
Why do people do bad things?
As our son grows up, he will realize that there are people who commit acts that are not good, that there are people who kill others, wars, that there are parents who beat mothers, that there are those who can steal things from you when you get confused or that there are people who can take them away from their family. This is going to make you ask us why and well, we don't always have to know the answer.
What does "fuck" mean? Why does that man shit on ...?
Sooner or later, your children will enter fully into the world of tacos, I mean to enter in a conscious way and not to repeat the words they hear and that grandparents like them so much. At that moment you will realize how strange many tacos sound when we really analyze what we are saying.
Have you ever taken drugs? Why can't I drink beer / smoke?
We arrived at the wonderful world of various narcotics or what I call "I want to take the same as the elders take, because I want to be older. Being older ".
On the issue of drugs, the truth is that I doubt that your five or six year old son is not going to ask that question unless I get caught seeing "hangover in Las Vegas" or something, but it is very likely that on a terrace, while enjoying your beer or cigar he asks you why he can't do it.
If smoking is so bad and it kills, why do you smoke?
You are going to forgive me, but if you smoke you have won the freehand question, yes, I know, it is complicated and much more complicated is to give your children a convincing answer. You can take the opportunity to try to leave it and they help you, believe me they can be terribly effective in that aspect, come on, that not even the KGB in its good times watched so effectively.
Why are the elders always commanding and the little ones have to obey?
Wow, it seems that our daughter has come out revolutionary. My son asks me every time he has to take a bath and yes, it is not fair, but some advantage would have to have this to be parents, right?
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