Do you enjoy hearing the answers when you ask children open ended questions?

Their answers can tell you so much about them.

Forward: I live in Small Town. My son, his wife and 4 kids live in Tiny Town, about 12 miles away. My five old granddaughter is with dad, in Tiny Town, about 60% of the time. The other 40% she’s with her bio mom here in Small Town. She also goes to pre-school in Small Town. Dad works in Small Town, so he picks her up on his days.

Well, my son and granddaughter and I were hunkered down in my cellar yesterdy, during a tornado warning. We were talking about tornadoes. My granddaughter asked, “Well, if the house blows away how would we make coffee?” LOL!

Then she went on to say, “Well, I’d just go along until it dropped me off. ”
My son and I laughed, then he said, “And where would the tornado drop you off?”
Without hesitation she said, “Small town!”

We laughed more…but then I felt curious. Why would she say Small Town instead of Tiny Town, where she lived most of the time, and where her step mom and 3 brothers and sisters were? It was most likely because she was IN Small Town at the moment, but I just wondered if it meant something a little more. Maybe she views Small Town as her “home” town they way I view the now-unrecognizable town I grew up in as my home town?
I didn’t ask her at the time because I didn’t think of it then.

Have you ever asked kid an open ended question and gotten an interesting answer?