Children possess a God Given Mind of Enquiry

I am sure many of us have heard of toddlers entering into the "Why" stage. And I am sure, many of us have heard parents lament about this stage, often wishing their tots would not chatter so much and stop asking these endless questions. What a real pity it is for a parent to go through the most absorbent stage of a child and not know the ease with which one can impart knowledge to them. I believe this mind of enquiry, is a God-given capacity for young minds to begin understanding life and its complexities, and to eventually question the origin and source of all life. It is natural for tots to ask about everything they see. They are curious and inquisitive and we should jump for joy at that. The world is new and exciting to them and they want to know how everything work. Tots should be natural at Science because it deals with asking, testing and experimenting. Tots do the asking and we as adults can encourage them in testing and experimenting. Whether their experiments yield a positive or negative result, it is an experiment nonetheless. It's funny how in our schools, we only start to really try our hand in Science at ages 10 and above. We may have missed out the most opportune time of great learning from ages 3-6. When we want to finally inculcate a mind of inquiry in a teenager, we find that we do so with much difficulty because most probably, the teenager's insatiable hunger for learning and knowledge was curbed when he was a toddler. Let's not dismiss our children and their questions with, "because the sky is blue and the grass is green. " I believe if we looked into the intricacies of why the sky is blue and not purple and red, we would have learnt more about wavelengths and truly marvel at the intelligence and artistry of God. If we only let our children grow naturally, they would be learning more of life than we can ever imagine. 

Some of Sarah's "Why"....

Question 1: Pointing to a mosquito bite on her leg that has reddened, 

Sarah asks, "Mommy, why this color?"

Mommy overhears Daddy explaining to Sarah [and secretly glad she could subcontract out this task]: When a mosquito bites, its saliva enters underneath our body and it gets inflamed. That is why the spot where the mosquito bites turns red. That red spot is an inflammation. And Sarah repeats "Inflammation",

Question 2: Pointing to the water in the canal, Sarah asks, "Mommy, where the water go?" This was manageable for mommy who explains how the water that falls from the sky as rain, enters into the canal and is purified for our drinking purposes. 

After hearing the nursery rhyme, Farmer in a Dell, Sarah asks, "What is a dell?" 
Question 3: Mommy and Grandmama both researched this. "A dell is a wooded valley". Of course we had to draw mountains to explain what a valley is. 

This is definitely hard work:) Haha...do I have all the answers? Absolutely not. But it has made me search and ask and learn for myself alongside my precious daughter. May the Lord give wisdom that I would not curb or oppress her mind of enquiry and provide her the answers to all if not most of her questions. I have much much to learn:)