I love how little children look at the most ordinary objects with such profound enthusiasm. Why does the urge to investigate everything and anything begin to fade after the first 6 years? How can I keep the light in their eyes?
As was written by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman in The Creativity Crisis:
“Preschool children, on average, ask their parents about 100 question a day. Why, why, why — sometimes parents just wish it’d stop. Tragically, it does stop. By middle school they’ve pretty much stopped asking. It’s no coincidence that this same time is when student motivation and engagement plummet. They didn’t stop asking questions because they lost interest: it’s the other way around. They lost interest because they stopped asking questions.”
Now, I know one of my girls will ask me a question before I have finished typing this sentence and I will answer it with the dignity it deserves.
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