What kinds of questions by kids do you not give the answer to, no matter what?

“What is your credit card number?”

Depends on the age of the kid. There are things I talk about with my 11-year old grandson that I will not discuss with my 7 year old granddaughter.

I don’t answer kids NSFW questions.

Yes of course there are tons kinds of questions that shouldn’t be answered. But there is one person who says just because they ask you should give them the answer. Bu even if they could get the answer from the wrong source, (as is the explanation given as to why you should answer whatever they ask you) you still don’t answer the question they asked directly right?

I wouldn’t answer questions whose answers I felt the kids were not old enough to hear. Questions that might have sexual or troubling or disturbing answers can wait. Otherwise there are certain personal questions I won’t answer, but even if the asker is an adult I’d feel the same way.

I give an answer of some sort to every question kids ask me even if it’s just to say grown ups don’t ask each other personal questions like that.

^ same

I would probably not answer questions a kid asked me about their parents’ private lives. i would suggest that they ask their parents.

“Why did you fire my daddy?”

“The better part of valor is discretion.” -Shakespere’s “I Henry IV.,” v.4.121
Otherwise, if they’re old enough to ask, they’re old enough to know.
Honesty is always the best policy!

I would actually rather answer sex/biology questions over religious questions about God.

If they’re my own children, there isn’t a question I wouldn’t answer in some way. It would just need to be an age-appropriate answer.

No one in this thread would answer “How is a bomb made?” At what age could a child ask that question? A 5 yr. old, or something can ask that question. So, answering that question directly has nothing to do with honesty, or old enough, coreect or not correct?

@flo I would answer that question with “I don’t know,” because that’s the truth. If I did know, I would still answer but in generalities, without sufficient information/instructions for my child to actually make a bomb.

I know how to construct a bomb so I would tell the child how to do it, and I wouldn’t have to be spot-on specific in details, or where to find the parts. After that, if the child wanted to construct a bomb, he/she would have to find, collect, and assemble the components. How each part works, or is activated, is the hard part, and I could be vague about that.

There must be some pulling of legs going on.

…I was assuming resposes to my last post like: “That’s different, I would answer “Why would you want to know how to make a bomb???” “You shouldn’t want to know how to make a bomb” and take the child to a psychologist or something.

No leg-pulling on my part. I truly believe there is no topic that should be strictly off-limits to children just because they are children. Again, talking only about my own children…I wouldn’t necessarily answer a question from some random child.

To clarify, my answer to the hypothetical bomb-making question wouldn’t just be an answer. It would be a whole discussion, including asking what inspired my child’s question (checking in on their state of mind) and explaining why bombs are bad and why we shouldn’t make them (reinforcing our family values). That goes for just about any question my own children might ask me…pretty much every answer will include discussion.

My daughters are all adults now, and are very similar in this way. Their own questions and answers are rarely simple.

Which is probably why we accidentally spend 3 or 4 hours on the phone with each other sometimes, lol.

@augustlan I’m pretty much with you as regards to my own children when they were children. Everything was open to discussion.

But the child knows they are bad otherwise the question would be what are bombs for. And the discussion could be why there is no need for anyone to know how bombs are made, esp. children. And that there are unintended consiquences misunderstandings of learning how to make a bomb. No nedd to answer how they are made.
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