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Mansplaining for good (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/fatherverse@midwest.social

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[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I tried that too but they just said "Why ".

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] hex@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

At least they're listening and learning!