I am the lucky father of my now 3 year old daughter, and off late, I am facing the inquisitive mind of a child. It is fascinating to see the kind of questions they ask and at the same time quite embarrassing at times when I am not able to give a genuine answer. Thanks to the internet and of course Google, I have saved my face on quite some occasions. This blog is to keep a log of the questions my daughter asked and how I went about answering them.
This question in my opinion is probably the first "Why" question that my daughter had asked and the most common one as you will realize very soon...
It was a regular week day evening, my daughter's routine is to go to the near by park. This particular day, my parents had come down and they decided to go the beach. My daughter loves the beach. She plays with her beach toys in the sand, she loves to break the little castles that we build and last but not the least, she loves to get herself wet in the sea water. This time was no different, except for one. She had tasted sea water earlier and she knows that it is salty, but this time, when she happen to taste the sea water my wife was standing beside her, and so she looked up and asked her
Amma, Why is the sea water salty?
The true version goes like this: அம்மா, ஏன் sea salty satlyaa இருக்கு?
My wife replied, The sea has lots of salt in it and that's why it is salty. She seemed to be happy with the response and she continue to have her fun.
When my wife told me about this, I was thinking what the best answer could have been. A simple Google search gave me a whole lot of scientific reasons to why sea water is salty, but all of them were way too complicated for a 3 year old, inf act it was way too complicated for me!, and then I realized that sometimes the simplest of the answers lie right in front of you and that's what my wife had responded too.
This question in my opinion is probably the first "Why" question that my daughter had asked and the most common one as you will realize very soon...
It was a regular week day evening, my daughter's routine is to go to the near by park. This particular day, my parents had come down and they decided to go the beach. My daughter loves the beach. She plays with her beach toys in the sand, she loves to break the little castles that we build and last but not the least, she loves to get herself wet in the sea water. This time was no different, except for one. She had tasted sea water earlier and she knows that it is salty, but this time, when she happen to taste the sea water my wife was standing beside her, and so she looked up and asked her
Amma, Why is the sea water salty?
The true version goes like this: அம்மா, ஏன் sea salty satlyaa இருக்கு?
My wife replied, The sea has lots of salt in it and that's why it is salty. She seemed to be happy with the response and she continue to have her fun.
When my wife told me about this, I was thinking what the best answer could have been. A simple Google search gave me a whole lot of scientific reasons to why sea water is salty, but all of them were way too complicated for a 3 year old, inf act it was way too complicated for me!, and then I realized that sometimes the simplest of the answers lie right in front of you and that's what my wife had responded too.
