What Deep Questions Have the Kids in Your Life Asked?

“Is the universe ends? As, is there a wall? “My son Anton asked me when I was five years old.

Joanna: was it difficult to reduce the list of questions for the book? I remember that my children asked as many, as: ‘Do you have to pay the bank to get money?’ And ‘Why can’t I see my eyes?’

Sarah: Certain juxtapositions make individual questions look more silly or more bittersweet. A child will ask him if the clowns pray blue, just after asking when he will die. My favorites in our book include: ‘Was mom a baby once too? I played with her?

Liana: Here are the last ones on the list that I keep on my phone phone that my three -year -old son has done: Do you get a lollipop when you leave prison? Who put your mustache on your face? What color is inside you? Why don’t the squirrels generally speak? Do older babies drink apple juice from their moms? There are so many more. I’m refraining.

I loved the introduction of the book on how children are bright observers. Sarah, you wrote: ‘I learned that children are art engines and rapid and experienced learning experiment. I saw my son to make sense of the world not as a simple mind cherub but as a machine to remember and remember. What helped you reach this realization?

Sarah: I liked to articulate why these questions fascinate me: in a nutshell, it is that children are workers. When I was four years old, my son asked me three questions at the same time: When I was in your body, did you know me? Was he excited to meet you? Did I do the world? The three arrived in the book, in order.

Liana: Sarah’s introduction is like a strong blue shadow behind the questions in the book.

I tried while reading the book, especially in the question: “When you die, can I come with you?”

Sarah: Many of the questions move me deeply. For me, reliable tears is: “After they bury you, when do they return and excavate you again?”

I remember that at my grandmother’s funeral, the vicar said: “Now your grandmother will be with your grandfather in the cemetery, or wherever they are in the great mystery.” I loved that writing, much of life is mysterious, no matter how many years we are.

Sarah: That vicar understood that children do not need to be protected from the great mystery. I remember asking my mother where babies came from, but everything I remember from your answer is: you have to have a special type of egg. For years, I wondered what kind of egg I would have to eat and if I could eat it by accident.

Liana: All I can remember today is that, instead of becoming less fear of monsters, Sesame Street characters became really terrifying monsters in my imagination.

What are other books for children that you like?

Liana: Those who grew up, by William Steig, Maurice Sendak, Ruth Krauss and Maira Kalman, because they are (1) amazing and (2) very deep for me. Two new discoveries, both cosmic, are: Time is a Julie Mortad flower, and here we are from Oliver Jeffers.

Sarah: I love Syd Hoff The Horse’s book in Harry’s room. Harry tells the class about his imaginary horse during the show and the fabric, and the other children laugh at him. Then the teacher says: “Sometimes thinking about one thing is the same as having it.” For younger children, I love Margaret Wise Brown I Like Stars, which is not as popular as their successes of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny night. Reading this book, especially if you are deprived of sleep, as are the majority of new parents, it is a psychedelic experience.

Thank you, Sarah and Liana! The questions without answers are beautiful.

Ps the raising of positive children for sex for prudes and five books for children about pain.

(Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1963, taken in a theater of Parisian puppets at the time when George kills the dragon).