In what can hardly be described as news, a study by online retailer Littlewoods reveals that mothers are asked around 288 questions by their children in a typical day at home.
That’s shocking right? I mean my son must clearly be above average. He asks questions before he even opens his eyes in the morning. But this survey focused on 1,000 mothers with children aged between two and ten and my child is twelve.
The Daily Mail reports
“It is during meal times when most questions are asked, with young children rattling off 11. This is closely followed by a routine trip to the shops, prompting ten.
Some 82 per cent of infants apparently go to their mother first rather than their father if they have a query. A quarter of children, 24 per cent, said they do this because their father will just say ‘ask your mum’.
In all, a mother’s knowledge is in such demand the study by online retailer Littlewoods.com found they are asked around 105,120 questions a year by their children.
The research found the number of questions asked by children differs with age and gender, with four-year-old girls being the most inquisitive. At the other end of the spectrum, nine-year-old boys are more content with their knowledge, asking a mere 144 questions per day.
Although the number of questions children ask falls with age, they increase in difficulty – so much so that 82 per cent of mothers admit they can’t answer them.”
Okay I am well within the 82% with my child asking me, amongst others, some of these doozies just recently
- How does digital radio work?
- How high up is space?
- How do the weather people predict the weather and why does daddy say they can’t do their job?
- If drugs are illegal because they make you act crazy and you can get addicted to them why isn’t alcohol illegal?
- What is 29 cubed?
- Why can’t I put this (glass with batteries in the base) in the bath, it isn’t electricity so how do the batteries actually work?
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I almost look back at the days of endless questions from a toddler with wistful romanticism. I remember the persistent questioning, the relentless search for knowledge that felt like he just wanted a small piece of my sanity but I remember that I could answer nearly all the questions. (It helped that so many of the questions were the same just repeated a billion times).
But there’s one thing about motherhood that you can be certain of – as soon as you think some stage has passed forever you get something like THIS every single night
“Can I stay up later?”
“Can I read a few more pages?”
“Why do I get thirstier in the night than I do in the day?”
“What are we doing tomorrow morning?”
“What time do I have to get up?”
“What if I don’t get up in time?”
“What is the weather going to be like tomorrow?”
“Can I wear sport uniform to school tomorrow even though it’s a uniform day?”
“Why is the sport jumper so much softer than the uniform jumper?”
“Did we buy this jumper or did Zach give it to us when he grew out of it?”
“Do you remember that TV show we watched when I was 3 and there was this guy in it that wore cool green pants?”
You have to love an inquisitive mind.
Do your kids ask a billion questions?
What about the question I get asked first thing each and every morning even before breakfast, “what’s for dinner?” x by 3 children and asked about 20 more times during the day. Gee I hate that question….. by the way, does anyone have any ideas for dinner?
Lol! I never know what to make for dinner and every single time I do tel my son what’s for dinner he hates it. Guaranteed. Gah!
I laughed and laughed when I heard about this study. My 3.5 yo is a ‘little’ above the average as I reckon he asks eleventy billion questions a day. And my first answer to each question is never quite detailed enough apparently. Add to this the fact that he has just recently started throwing 3 or 4 extra ‘Why?’ ‘Why?’s on to the end of each set of questions (with a cheeky grin on his face). It’s enough to make you cry!
Gosh of course he’s above average – he’s your son! 🙂
I have 3 children; big boy, girl, little boy. Big boy would ask less than 288 questions (he’s 8 and the strong, silent type) and Girl would probably ask about that many, but her questions are always good ones. Little Boy – Ohhhhhh little boy – would ask approximately 6745 questions a day. And they are DOOZIES! “What would I look like with 3 eyes?” “Can polar bears fly planes?” “Can I be a girl AND a boy?” ….
Little wonder I’m insane….
Don’t you just love the questions that are impossible to answer – not because you can’t but because there is NO answer. xx
My mother once laughed at me explaining superannuation to my 4 year old. I explained to her (my mother) that if I blinded her (the child) with science when she asked the first question, I would get a respite of oh, anywhere up to half an hour, before the next one!
Now that is rather brilliant! Colour me impressed. Tonight I will get my husband to explain meteorology to my son – because I have no clue 🙂