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Mansplaining for good
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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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like daddit for the fediverse but we all eat pizza with ranch and say "ope" a lot. all dads and non-dads are welcome. ranch on pizza is recommended but not required. ope is mandatory.
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So i avoided doing that and came up with terse explanations for nothing? I didn't want to scare my kid off from asking questions
My strategy when I get repetitious "whys" has been to ask "why what?"
Make them process the answer you just gave them and reformulate it into a question.
If they don't do a good job just say "I don't understand your question, can you ask it in another way? "
Kids like the 'why' game because it's easy entertainment. Just make it less easy.
I tried that too but they just said "Why ".
Oh I have not been avoiding answering questions. I've been holding myself to not give long boring answers.
And mine always asks "why ", not that easy :)
At least they're listening and learning!