What do you tell a child that asks impossible questions to answer as a parent?

Have you ever wondered how to answer the questions that a child asks that just leaves you completely stumped? With the way children are learning today, things are more advanced from even when I was in school about 10 years ago. College is easier than Grammer school to the advanced 10 year olds.

My 10 year old can tell me more about antient Egypt and Science than I had learned the whole time I was in school! She can tell me more about the human body than I even knew. She isn't allowed on the internet, so I know she surely didn't get it from there. So where did she get it?

I often heard myself asking this question, not to just myself, but to my parents and the surrounding adults alike. Then here came the normal question to the conversation... "How do we answer questions that we have no idea how to answer?"

If you've ever heard yourself asking that same question, what were some of the things you came up with to answer such questions out of your own knowledge?

I had done some research over the past 10 and a half years of being a parent to learn to answer these questions. With my eldest daughter being so advanced and such an intelligent child, she has already began to do Geometry and Advance Science projects.

It took me two weeks thinking of what she could do her science project on to even get an idea for her. She has wanted to do something simple, but I knew that with her being as advanced, the teacher wouldn't give her the credit she deserved.

To make her enjoy her science project I gave her a way to enjoy it and make it as advanced as she is. I asked her, "Do you want to do something that would envolve arts and crafts so that you can also do your science project on this?" She started bouncing off the walls and was coming up with more and more ideas by the second!

Finally I introduced her to the one thing that I had been reading and studying about for the past year and a half myself. I gave her a book, some sea salt, aromatherapy scents and some food coloring. She took it upon herself to read what she needed to put down on the poster board, index cards, and the pictures. Instead of pictures, she asked me, "Mom, can't I just take and make samples of the Aromatherapy salts to give out as a way of doing the pictures?" What a brillant little girl?! I went and got her another poster board, took and bagged up what she'd already made, labled them for her and taped them with double sided tape to the poster board with lables on the board.

She made the A I knew she was capable of!

The next thing you may wonder, what else can you do to answer such questions?. There is a book that has been published that I had done quite a bit of research to find. it helps with questions that would be almost impossible to answer to younger children. It's "The Complete Book of Questions & Answers" Over 1 million of these books have been printed. I found it at a website that is personally owned by a work at home mom that started a business because she had wanted to encourage reading to younger children. It helps with Science, Earth & Space, Nature, Prehistoric Life, The Human Body, and History. It was published by American Education Publishing. It's a $14.95 book, but well worth it!

Look into www.kidsreadmore.com

You'll be very shocked at all of the books, ranged up from toddler to the 8th grade and they have more than just educational books there. This book of Questions and Answers covers from Earth Quakes to what the highest water fall on earth is, from the oldest mountain to what makes Neptune blue?