Realize Part:2

I know how crazy my last post sounded. All I asked was if you ever realized how much children wanted to learn. I asked  you to listen to children's questions, so did you? I never really noticed what type of questions children asked until I was babysitting last week.

The kids and I, were making crafts. It might have just been the craziest thing I ever did, I had fun! What was that craziness, well the kids were bored and it was kinda cold outside. Instead of finding something easy and simple to do, I thought it would be fun to make pet rocks. It was something I did in 5th grade for a science project. The oldest two had SO much fun with it, but the oldest, Luke, sent many questions my way. He wanted to know how the hot glue gun worked and why it was so hot. He wanted to know how that happened and this happen. I realized that he was asking questions that I had never really asked. Luke was asking questions that he might need answers to later in life.

Little Miss Sarah, the middle child, was asking questions about me. Like why I never call my mom just my dad. Of course when I asked with that she didn't have a phone where she was, both Luke and Sarah wanted to know why. Sarah made comments like she had only seen my dad and never my mom, then questioned why. I really don't know how to answer her questions without it bring up even more questions. Sarah was asking questions about my life, so she could understand me better, maybe.

Naomi, the youngest, all of her questions were about what was going to happen that night. If I was putting them to bed, if they had to take a bath, if we could do three little monkeys and things about what was going to happen very soon. I found it really surprising that all three of them kept asking questions but each question was as different as they were. But at the same time each question they asked fell into a certain group, more of a style of question I guess.

The passed few days, I have been realizing that we ALL have a certain type of style of questions that we ask. Most of my questions are sarcastic and when they aren't, I am asking things like: when,why,who,where and is everything okay. I never really ask how this works or why that works.  In what ways do you question?