Considerations

It is easy to fob off kids with irrelevant or non commital answers when you do not want to actually respond to their innocent little queries. You can tell them that they will find answers when they grow up, or that they are too young to understand. Or even with a simple "I don't know". But doing so for genuine queries that childlike curiosity throws up every now and then, and in most cases more now than then, is actaully stifiling a very healthy habit of investigating their surroundings.

It must be our endeavour to be as patient as possible when dealin with our children. The gift of patience and of our time is the best that we can give them. It is the best way of imparting our values to them, the DNA of real life that will see them through the evolution from childhood dreams to the cruel world of adulthood.