I encourage the questions (and have had some really cool ones, like why don’t we have two suns, or where did the first person come from) but yes, especially young kids ask questions because they want to hear you talk, and often they are the same one over and over, or don’t make sense, or are asked to delay something else. I mostly only answer the exciting well thought out questions and encourage them to try harder if it’s not a good question (for their age).
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What basic or everyday thing did you recently find out you were doing wrong?
15·5 days agoToothpaste instructions often tell you to rinse with a small amount of water, but dentists here always say not to.
And floss before brushing, so you can rinse goop out before the toothpaste goes in.

My kids are getting older now (oldest is 9) and I allocate time at bed time for talking. They have aged out of random questions but we continue with “question time” that is the last thing before “lying down quiet time” so there’s a good incentive to think of questions to delay sleep 😁