Some of the best questions asked by kids

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My 4 year old last week walking home from a birthday party, observing the lawns we passed:
"why are all these sprinklers on when no one is playing in them?"

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"How does anyone know that anyone is alive? And if nobody thinks of it, how will it be thought?"

My 6-year-old asked that while pensively staring out the window a few weeks ago. My wife and I exchanged surprised looks and I got about 3 words into an answer before she interrupted with:

"How do scientists know that our sun will explode someday?"

That was a relief. Easier to explain astronomy than the cogito and solipsism :)

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At my husband's grandmother's wake my MIL took my 4 or 5 year old up to see his grandmother in the casket. Everyone was hushed, listening. He paused, looking curious. "Why is there a pillow under her head?" he demanded.
My mother in law faltered. "Ummm, so she could be comfortable," she said, trying to placate him.
He looked at her incredulously and spoke to her as if she understood nothing at all. "Grandma, she's dead. How could she be comfortable? What do you mean? You could take a chain saw and cut her up and it wouldn't matter at all. " Everyone was literally speechless.

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I bought one of those plastic bottles from the supermarket which said "BPA free". At home my 6 year old daughter asks me "Amma where is the BPA that comes free with this bottle ?"

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Roughly 30 years ago I had this conversation with my parents in the car. They love to tell this story.

Child me: "Do hear a buzzing sound?"
<moment of silence while they check>
Mom/dad: "No, I don't think so"
Child me: "Me neither"

That may have been the first glimpse of the rather strange and subtle sense of humor which has never gone away.

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"Daddy, how do we know the universe is infinite, if we can't get to the end of it?"

- From my then 11-year-old daughter.

I had to call Bill Wattenburg, the scientist and talk show host, for an explanation and I was still unable to adequately answer her.

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I was talking about chickens with my four year old the other day and he asked, "Chicken the food, or chicken the animal?"

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My daughter was about 3. We were studying birds and I explained that birds lay eggs. Emma said, "Not all birds lay eggs." I thought about that for a minute then I asked her, "Which birds don't lay eggs?" and she said, "The boy birds don't."

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One day my two sons and myself were in the check out line of a dept. store. When suddenly, I began to notice that my 4 year old son was making flirtatious faces with the pretty woman in line behind us. I turned to look at her when....

Lady: What handsome boys you have, they are so cute!
Me: Why thank you, and obviously the ladies man I see.
Lady to my son: How'd you get to be so stinkin' cute?
My son: Cause my Mommy doesn't make ugly babies!

Now, imagine my face red as a beet, as we both laughed.

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My seven year old cousin got to know that my dog had died. He asked what we did with it and I told him that we buried him. To this he asked "Was your dog a muslim?"

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When my son was 3 and we were driving through the country. There were dairy cows in the field. He was very quiet, then he said, "Mom why do those cows have some many penis's"

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Last year my son was 5. One day, out of the blue, he asked me, "Do you hate being a mommy?"
I said, "Of course not! Why would you ask that?"
"Because of all the work."
I felt so validated.

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We live in India and my kid is 6 years old. We recently bought him a world map and a globe. Combining his knowledge from both the map and the globe, he asked me, "Daddy, could we reach USA if we drill under our house long enough?".

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My parents told me this. When I was young, my Dad took me to vegetable market and told me to stay near bike. After sometime, I started wandering alone in Vegetable Market and got lost. I was crying loudly and people were gathered around me. Then somehow, my Dad also reached at that spot and took me with him. When I came back home, I narrated the incident to Mom : "Dad got lost in the market and I found him"

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My aunt to her three year old son: You are now going to a bigger school and not this playschool for long. So you will have a change of friends and teachers around but that shouldn't make you sad.
The son to the aunt: *wails* Does that mean they are going to change my mother too? :D

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At one point, we ran out of strawberries, and she asked, "Does all fruit run out?" Then she asked, "Does running run out?" and started running in a circle around the kitchen.

Some other questions:

- Daddy, why can we see our shadows but not our mouths opening?
- Who made the world?
- How did they make the earth?
- How do you make earths?
- Daddy why did you be a grownup before I did?
- What do hyenas wipe with?
- Is it the weekend or the workday?

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My 6 years old niece once said this when she came to stay with us on holidays for 10-15 days.She saw that My mother (her grandmother) who cooks food for all of us everyday and is always busy in kitchen.

On one sunday, when we all (her grandfather, uncles and aunts) were at home she said, "you all go to work in morning and come back in evening, and you also have holidays on saturday /sunday then why Grandmother works from morning to night and do not get any holiday?"...She went on to say that you guys dont value her hardwork.

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I had my second baby recently and my 5 yr old was getting used to the concept of breastfeeding. one day she caught me drinking tea and she said the baby wants you to feed tea today that is why you are drinking tea :-))

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I had a friend's daughter over to our house to plan one day, she was about 4 or 5. She had lived in apartments her whole life and we had a fire going in our fireplace. She looked at me and said "Why are you cooking wood?"

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