Some common questions

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Tiffi is not sure what to type in for her search but it doesn’t take her long to come up with some good articles. She reads a couple of them and then finds an article titled, Why? 9 Common Questions Kids Ask and How to Answer.

‘Children love to ask why -- but you may not always have the answers. We consulted the experts to get smart responses for some common stumpers.

Why Aren't There Any More Dinosaurs?

Tell your kid About 65 million years ago an enormous asteroid collided with the earth and changed everything on the planet. The dinosaurs couldn't adapt and eventually died out, making way for new animals, ones that were better suited to this other climate. 

What you should know "Dinosaurs are vivid proof that the world was once very different, which gets a child's imagination running wild," notes Matthew T. Carrano, Ph.D., curator of Dinosauria at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. "Dinosaurs can often hook kids into broader scientific concepts," he says, so take this opportunity to talk about, say, the environment or evolution. For example, explain that dinosaurs' fossils show that they were the ancestors of today's chickens, pigeons -- even ostriches.

Why Are There So Many Languages in The World?

Tell your kid Thousands of years ago, people in different communities all over the globe invented their own words to describe their lives, and that's why today people from the same area tend to speak the same language and other people may not. Languages also evolve over time: Our own has changed so much that if you heard someone speaking English as it was spoken 500 years ago, you'd have trouble understanding what he was saying. 

What you should know Hearing someone speaking a foreign language can strike young children as odd -- even unsettling. "But the earlier we help kids understand what they can learn from other cultures, the more likely they'll seek out new kinds of people," notes Jillian Cavanaugh, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology and archaeology at Brooklyn College, in New York. Remind your kid that people from other cultures might think the way we talk is unusual, too, and point out that some words she uses often come from other languages, like ballet (French) or pasta (Italian).’ (Source)

Tiffi is happy that she found this article. She never thought of searching for different languages in the world but she’s sure happy that she just learned why there are so many languages all over the world.   Maybe sometime in the future she’ll check to see if she can gather enough material on languages for Elsa to create a new story.

Let’s continue - Kids ask the darndest questions! 

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Start at the beginning of the main story – Why … But WHY?

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