i knew all kids went through a "why" phase - where they ask why? about everything, over and over. however, i thought i had a while before i would have to deal with it. WRONG! dd, for the past week or so, has been asking why? endlessly. and of course one answer never suffices - we usually have a string of at least 4-5 whys, and i've already been guilty of a couple of "because i said so" episodes. i think this is tied with whining for the most annoying thing yet about 2 yr olds, as much as i love them, it's driving me nuts!!!! :blink: does anyone have any strategies that can help me deal with this? thanks!
We hit it a while ago and I too am guilty of "because I said so". No real advice, I try to answer what I can and hope they leave after that. Good luck to you!
We are still in it (older DD started at about 20 months - she's now 3 1/2) and yup it can get VERY frustrating. I often use "you tell me" when it's something that she's asked about repeatedly. Her preschool teacher also suggested "What would you like to know about..." and "Let me think about that" and come back later and rephrase the question to see if she really wants and answer or distract if it's just a knee jerk reaction - which I think for my DD "why" has definately become. Some days it works, some days it doesn't. When all else fails and I can't take it anymore I just repeat "why" back to her until she gives up! Ususally results in a laughing fit which helps both of us! Good luck!
Nathan loves to asks why. Depending on the situation he gets different answers. When I honestly think he is asking to learn something, I try to put together enough answers for his string of why's. If it is his knee jerk reaction from me telling him to do something (like asking him to get dressed), then he gets the "because I said so" response some of the time.
We told our oldest one as much as we could to answer her question. That seemed to help some, but she's a singleton, and I have no idea if we'll ahve time for that once the twins hit that age. Now she doesn't ask why so much, but will actually ask a question about what she is interested in. Now, if only we could get her to only ask it 2 or 3 (hundred!) times and be done with it!
With my nephew if I answered his question and he kept asking why I would say..."why do you think??" 90% of the time he would reply, "I don't know" and the matter would stop right there...ha!! Just a little trick you might try.
Ugh, how frustrating! we haven't hit that stage yet. Ours just want to know "What dat" with everything we come into contact with that they don't know what it is...drives me nuts!
QUOTE(twinzmom2b @ Nov 26 2007, 02:42 PM) [snapback]509313[/snapback] Ours just want to know "What dat" with everything we come into contact with that is cameron's specialty. so alisha asks "why? why? why?" and cameron asks "dat? dat? dat?" with cam, often he knows what it is, and it's sort of a game, so maybe for one round i'll say the things and then the next round i'll make him say it. at least with that i feel like he's learning something. they whys though feel more like a game for alisha than curiosity - that's why it drives me so nuts. ahh, the joys of life with twin toddlers!
