Thoughtful questions for kids: 9 Cool Questions to Ask Your Kid
100 Thought-Provoking Questions for Students
All too often, we get caught up in the everyday mundanity of life, forgetting the bigger picture. Perhaps it’s time to have a conversation about it all – yes, life and the more profound things!
You may be wondering how to break the ice, though? Well, these thought-provoking questions are perfect for initiating a meaningful dialogue with students, family, and friends alike!
1. What are you doing to make the world a better place?
2. What three things do you think you could improve about yourself?
3. What do you think the purpose of life is?
4. Do you believe in a creator or gods? If so, which?
5. What do you think happens to you after death?
6. What three new skills did you learn this year?
7. What were you doing on this day one year ago?
8. Where do you see yourself in one year?
9. Do you believe in fate or destiny?
10. If you had no fears in life, what would you do differently?
11. Do you think it is better to live a longer or a fuller life?
12. Do you feel like you are really living or merely existing?
13. Have you ever experienced something you could not explain? If so, what?
14. What unusual interests do you have?
15. What dreams have you put on hold in your life, and what can you do to kickstart these again?
16. What did you want to be or achieve when you were younger?
17. Do you think money makes you happy? If so, why?
18. Do you think that people should be limited in their options to travel or do things in the world based on their nationality?
19. How much money do you think is the perfect amount to earn?
20. Do you think that travel helps us to be less ignorant, intolerant, and prejudiced? If so, in what way?
21. What special skills do you possess that you think you could share with others for their benefit?
22. Do you think life or school is a better teacher?
23. How do you think the universe came to exist?
24.
Do you think lying is ok? If so, in what situations, and why?
25. Why do you think power corrupts ultimately?
26. Do you believe that gender equality truly exists or is just spoken about but not really practiced?
27. What three things do you think we could do as a society to progress gender equality?
28. What three things do you think we could do as a society to reduce hate crimes?
29. What three things do you think we could do as a society to avoid violence and wars?
30. What three things do you think we could do as a society to get rid of prejudice and hatred?
31. What five things do you think are fundamental human rights?
32. Do you think animals feel as much as we do regardless of their size?
33. Do you think giving to others is an integral part of life? If so, why?
34. Do you think time spent with family and friends is time well spent? If so, why?
35. How often do you practice gratitude?
36. Do you have any grudges or anger you haven’t let go of or forgiven?
37.
Do you think that forgiveness is an important thing to practice in life? If so, why?
38. What three things do you think your parents struggled with in their time that you’re thankful that you won’t have to?
39. If you didn’t need to work for money, what would you devote your time to, instead, and why?
40. Do you believe in the reincarnation of the soul or life after death?
41. Do you think that there is truth in astrology? If so, why?
42. Do you think we understand a lot or very little about life?
43. Do you believe any current religion, belief system, or creed knows the absolute truth about life?
44. What life experience do you think will make you the happiest when you are older?
45. Do you think that someone wealthy is automatically a better person than someone poor?
46. Is a boss someone who leads by example or tells others what to do?
47. Have you ever had a near-death experience?
48. What makes you happiest at the moment?
49.
In what instance do you think it’s ok to break the law?
50. Which old laws do you think you need to change or get revised in this current day and age?
51. Do you think morality outweighs the law or the other way around?
52. Which endangered species do you think will be alive in 100 years?
53. How large do you think the population of earth will be in 100 years?
54. What ecological issues do you think your kids will face in their lifetime?
55. If the average human life span was double what it is now, what would you do differently?
56. If people only lived to 20 years old, how would you live your life differently?
57. Would you ever adopt a child rather than having your own?
58. Do you think it’s ok for boys and men to cry?
59. Do you think girls are less capable than boys at certain things?
60. Do you think it’s ok for a woman to be physically stronger than a man, or vice versa? If so, why?
61. Do you think someone should be limited or expected to act or dress in a certain way because of their gender, race, or financial status? Explain your answer.
62. What three personality traits do you appreciate most in other people?
63. What three personality traits are you most proud of cultivating in yourself?
64. Do you think life would be boring if we all had the same religion, beliefs, culture, and race?
65. What two things do you think women could do to foster gender equality?
66. What two things do you think men could do to foster gender equality?
67. Do you think people should have the freedom to express hate speech?
68. Do you think that freedom has its limits before turning into a bad thing?
69. Do you think that freedom can be a bad thing, for example, if used to repress or hurt others?
70. What social issues do you think people will struggle with the most in fifty years?
71. What clothing do you think will be fashionable in fifty years?
72. What do you think future personal devices, smartphones, and computers will look like in thirty years?
73. Do you think it’s better to try and fail or better to succeed and never fail?
74.
Do you think that children should be rewarded for trying, not just succeeding?
75. What advice would you give to your children if you had any of your own?
76. What advice would you give to your grandchildren if you had any of your own?
77. Do you think that suffering is a necessary part of life? If so, why?
78. Do you think it’s necessary to go through hardships in life? If so, why?
79. What spiritual beliefs do you have?
80. Should all food wastage be given to the poor before it spoils?
81. Do you think it’s ok for a starving child to steal food?
82. Do you think that it’s wrong for some people to be denied rights because they don’t have a nationality or passport?
83. Do you think that a nationality is a right? Or, do you think the concept of a nationality actually goes against the right to freedom and not being enslaved in a country or suffering prejudice by others not allowing you there?
84. Where would you live if you could live anywhere in the world?
85.
Do you think that it’s right that we segregate ourselves based on our likes, beliefs, and cultures?
86. Do you think humans could learn to be more tolerant of those who are different?
87. If you could change any three things about the world, what would they be and why?
88. What recent valuable life lessons have you learned?
89. What do you think you will look like in 20 years?
90. Do you think that wealthier European nations should be more proactive in helping to alleviate poverty in previously colonized countries?
91. Do you think that women’s bodies and sexuality are often misused to sell products?
92. Do you believe women and are more valuable and deserving of appreciation and rewards if they are attractive?
93. Do you think that some forms of love are more self-gratifying than giving to the other person?
94. Do you think many people love their ego, money, and status more than they care about others around them?
95. What do you think success is, really?
96.
Do you think you can be called a success for achieving things other than making money?
97. Do you think it’s more important to be successful in life or moral?
98. Do you think that many “successful” people are immoral?
99. Do you think money and personal possessions make someone more important than another person?
100. Do you think that everyone should have a right to food, water, and a piece of land regardless of the financial status they are born into?
Hopefully, these thought-provoking questions lead to some valuable discussions about life and other important issues!
100+ Questions You Can Ask Your Kids That Will Make You a Better Parent
“Mommy! Why can I not open my eyes when I look at the sun?
Why do I always have to sleep early, when you can stay up late?
Momma, why does the water not flow up the mountain ever?
Doesn’t the moon hate the sun for hiding it in the daytime?
Why is my hair straight and Dad’s curly?
Why can I not fly like the birds?”
Have you also had your share of the endless questions with limited unsatisfactory answers for your little ones? Did you ever think of hiding behind the couch like me seeing your little one in a questioning mode?
It’s payback time! But don’t worry! I’ll make sure it is fun for everyone!
It’s your turn to put some interesting questions to your kids.
Because when you put a thoughtful question to your child, it zaps on her thinking mode automatically. And when young minds think, analyze or introspect, they learn best and grow up to be resourceful adults who can think out of the box and survive in any situation.
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These questions also build connection between you and your child. They see you actually listening to what they have to say, and they know that they matter to you. You, in turn, get to learn more about what is going on inside their heads and in their lives.
Here are 100 questions which you can ask your kids and enjoy their wittiness, thoughtfulness, and the strength of their character as they answer them. Observe and study their answers carefully as they are going to reveal a great deal about your little bundles as they struggle to answer you or open up greater communication channels for you.
I’ve divided them up into categories that will allow you to focus on having them think critically about several areas of their development.
Here we go-
Getting to Know Them Better
The questions are simple and oft asked, but their answers are going to surprise you! It’s a simple exercise to see if they can make choices and stick with them. Even you littlest one isn’t so little in their head. You’ll probably love their indecisiveness and their reasons to put someone on their list or to take them off.
- If you could bring one of the objects to life, what would that be and why?
- Your favorite time of the day?
- Who would you want as your imaginary best friend- could be anyone? (Be ready for anyone from Captain America to Iron Man to Ariana!)
- If you could have one of your friends as your brother or sister, who would it be?
- What is the one food you like most? (Be ready to get all fancy answers as they struggle to let their imaginations run wild.
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- Who’s your favorite friend?
- Who’s your favorite teacher?
- Your favorite sandwich topping?
- A cartoon character you love the most?
- A vacation you would want to repeat again and why?
- All-time favorite movie?
- One book you’ve enjoyed reading the most?
- Which vegetable would you want to make disappear from the face of the earth?
- What cheers you up when you’re really low?
)–And this list could go on!
Answering such questions would help them make their choices, mostly between equally loved things and it’s highly likely they won’t be able to decide on any one thing. The choices may change wildly from day to day and week to week, and – as in my child’s case – depending on her mood.
But nonetheless, it does give me a fair idea of her present state of mind. So, keep shooting these questions from time to time and find reasons for the change in the favorites.
If the shifts seem normal and part of growing up, breathe easy! If not, look for reasons why they are unable to decide and stick to their own choices.
They are a great way to connect and peak into your little one’s mind but remember – the key is to keep them fun!
Boosting Social Skills
These questions build on the simpler questions from above and take them to the next level. They are amazing conversation starters… instead of shooting them in rapid fire, look to ask just one or two and let the conversations and discussions build into something a lot deeper and more insightful – for both of you!
- What do you like doing with me the most?
- Which personality/character trait has gotten you into the most trouble?
- What if your friend told you a secret not to be shared, but you feel it needs to be?
- If you were to have a robot as a friend, which friend would you substitute him with?
- Do you like being alone or with lots of people?
- With whom would you share all your toys?
- The one thing that all your friends like about you?
- What is your favorite mode of communication: a heart-to-heart talk, a text message or a voice note?
- If you were to write a book, what would it be the topic?
- Which is the one thing you’d like to try all by yourself, which Mom doesn’t let you?
- Which teacher would you like to substitute for at school?
- What one activity at school do you hate doing?
- What’s one chore you hate doing at home?
- What movie do you wish you could act in?
- If you were to swap places with a friend, who would that be and why?
- 5 Things you love about your school?
- Which of your friends (according to you) does your Mom like the most?
- What do you think you should do to make your bad day improve?
- Which fictional character would you want to meet?
- How excited are you about your future?
- Do you want to grow up fast or slow it down? Why?
- One dream that you have and how you would work towards living it?
- The things you don’t like in our family.
- What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done, or you wish to do?
- What does home mean to you?
Building Core Values
The answers to all these questions would actually help you know the thought process of your little one. Just make sure your questions pop at unsuspecting times and be smart enough to hold your response for another time.
This will help to maintain an honest dialogue in the future. The first time I asked my daughter about the pranks she would love to play with her friends, her answers were more unabashed. The next time they were more guarded and controlled.
Maybe you could work your responses into a story, or work on that later.
- If you could help someone or a group, who would it be?
- If you could teach your Mommy and Daddy something, what would that be?
- How do you wish to care for people you know and for those you don’t know?
- What is it that you’d enjoy sharing with others?
- If you could help the earth heal better, how would you do that?
- What is it that you like most in old people?
- What word would you coin or use in place of a cuss word?
- Have you ever wished that you could have what your friends do? If yes, what is it?
- What do you want to thank God or the universe for?
- If you won a hundred dollars, what would you buy with it?
- Your friend is feeling really low and so are you. Would you cheer her up or cry with her?
- A classmate is trying to pull off a naughty and scary prank on a friend. Would you talk her out of it, or would you join in the fun?
Would you cheer her up or cry with her?Boosting Resilience
Failure has become so unacceptable that we have managed to raise an army of frustrated kids. Kids who do not learn to tolerate failure are highly vulnerable to anxiety. It leads to meltdowns when the inevitable failure does occur, whether it happens in preschool or college. And the worst happens when they give up trying.
Michael Jordan, the world-famous athlete has spoken extensively about how perseverance and resilience in the face of challenges on and off the court have made him a winner. He has spent years advocating the importance of losing.
Dr. Amanda Mintzer, a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute stresses on why imperfections are necessary and how to tolerate them.
She says, “The ability to tolerate imperfection—that something is not going exactly your way—is often times more important to learn than whatever the content subject is.”
- Does counting to 10 help when you’re angry or do you need 90 more counts?
- What would you do if “your dog ate your project” on the day of its submission?
- What do you do to avoid a situation which is likely to get aggressive?
- What efforts do you make to not discuss things which you are sure will hurt one of your friends?
- How do you think the waitress must be feeling when Mr. X shouted at her?
- What would you do if this doesn’t pull off? What’s your Plan B?
- How do you react when you get bad grades despite putting in your best effort?
- Your reaction on coming second in a race by a fraction of a second.
- What if your favorite toy is broken into pieces by your younger brother?
- How would you feel on missing the first half of the movie because Daddy got back late from the office?
- Despite making your best effort, your teacher scolds you for not submitting a good project. How would you feel?
- If no one liked your ideas in a group discussion, how would you react?
How would you feel?I made mental notes of some of her answers so that, at a later time, I could check back in with her on them. I also made plans to help her improve in some of the areas of resilience where she was a bit low.
Developing Critical Thinking and Analysis
Young children who are 2 to 7 years of age are not mentally equipped for complete critical thinking. They learn through imaginative play and language and find it difficult to truly understand the standpoint of others. Critical thinking questions for them should focus on comparisons and reasoning. “What If,” “How,” and “Why” questions help open up their minds to the thinking process. As they get older you can ask them more involved questions. Here is a sampling of few questions to pick from:
- What is the one thing you’d like to invent which would make life easier for you?
- What is the one superpower the superheroes are missing out on? And if you got it, how would you use it?
- What if our world suddenly comes under an alien attack?
- What if suddenly all gadgets, smart phones, video games and tablets disappear?
- Do you think Batman has only one pair of clothes? He seems to wear them always!
- What do you think about what was said on the news tonight?
- Why do adults make rules that they sometimes don’t follow?
- If you had more than 24 hours in a day and others did not, how would things work out for you?
- What’s the most difficult part about growing up?
- What is one activity you would want to try out?
- What would you want to be famous for?
- How would you describe yourself in five words?
- If you were given the power to solve one problem, which one would it be?
Emotional Endurance
Psychologist Giuliett Moran of ‘Empowering Parents’ says it’s important to be specific when asking kids about their emotions.
We all know importance of open-ended questions. Moran stresses that asking questions that address feelings or emotions can help kids learn how to manage them.
“Children need to be able to identify, label and communicate their feelings,” she says. “It’s important to make discussing feelings part of your everyday routine. This will help build social and emotional intelligence in your child – both life skills that set children up for success.”
- What is the one thing that keeps you going even when you want to give up?
- How fortunate do you think you are and in what ways?
- When you disagree with your friends, how do you show it?
- How would you interact with someone who’s slightly different from you- say physically or mentally?
- What do you worry about the most?
- How many times have you felt jealous of your friends and why?
- If you could go back in time and change three wrong things you did, what would they be?
- Have you ever felt that you should have spoken up instead of keeping quiet?
- Do you feel that a particular situation would’ve been better if you had maintained silence?
- When do you think you made a wrong choice?
- Do you think you are short tempered and fly off your handle too often, or are you very patient and take a long time to get angry?
- Do you remember an incident when you demonstrated great patience and were rewarded for it?
- Have you ever lied because you were afraid of the consequences?
- Tell me one achievement which you actually nailed after repeated attempts.
Improving Bonding
If you are tired of answers in monosyllables, and I’m sure parents of most boys would nod all the way in agreement, you need some great questions that’ll help your kids open up more to you.
Vickie Falcone, author of Buddha Never Raised Kids and Jesus Didn’t Drive Carpool suggests a feeling of ‘connectedness’ is the most important factor in a child’s ultimate success and happiness. Her concept of PHIL ‘EM UP is a great one. It says in order to build strong relationships with our children, we need to give them choices and control over a few things (so they can feel POWERFUL), acknowledge their feelings (so they can feel HEARD), ask their opinions (so they can feel IMPORTANT) and show them unconditional love (so they can feel LOVED).
- Why do you think some kids disobey their parents?
- What makes you feel special?
- What is the one rule you would want to change at home?
- What is your favorite family tradition?
- What do you like most about your sisters/brothers?
- If you’d exchange your place with Daddy/Mummy for a day, what would you do?
- What is the best thing that happened to you in the past week?
- What’s the toughest part about being a kid?
- What are your favorite memories?
- What is something you thought you’d never tell anyone but somehow it slipped out?
- Describe how you’re feeling in a different word than you usually do.
- How would you react if you found out that your younger sibling has his hands in all the wrong things?
- One question you would ask someone to make sure he/she can be trusted with a secret?
- Would you ever put down your feelings in a diary? Also, would you read someone else’s diary if you stumbled upon it?
- Who do you find most difficult to communicate with among family and friends?
Whew! That was a long list with so many questions!
But I’m pretty sure the answers will be worth it all.
Each answer will be a window to your child’s mindset, the core values he has imbibed till now and his strengths and weaknesses. Do not miss out on the cues he/she drops and keep improving to become the best parent you can for your child.
A word of caution: The questions rebound too. Once your little one bares it all to you, he’d expect you to answer them honestly as well. So, get ready to face the rapid fire!!
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2-Minute Action Plan for Fine Parents
For our quick contemplation exercise today, try this:
- Think of 2 questions you can ask today.
- What are some of the best times for your family when you can bring up these questions?
- How would you answer these questions?
The Long-Term Action Plan for Fine Parents
Now for our long-term action plan, think how can you commit to being curious in the long run?
What can you do to make these open-ended questions an essential part of your parenting toolkit?
11 Answers to Children’s Questions That Baffle Adults / AdMe
Remember how, as kids, we often asked adults questions that they could not answer clearly, and said: “That’s how nature came up with it.
” In this article, we have collected popular topics that interest children and figured out the answers to them.
We at Bright Side were interested in remembering funny “whys” and finding out how specialists answer them.
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Unfortunately, no: to “build” an eye, you need a lot of living cells, and most microbes have too few of them or even one – he himself.
But even if the microbes suddenly had eyes, they would still hardly see their fellows. After all, the eye simply perceives light, and vision is already the fruit of the activity of the nervous system. Therefore, even if the eye could fit on the microbe, there is still no place for the nervous system.
However, bacteria can communicate with each other. Scientists have found that certain types of bacteria emit certain signals. This allows them to determine the size of their community.
- Explanation for a child: microbes can sense that there is another microbe next to them, but they cannot see, because such a complex system as vision cannot be created on such a small creature as a bacterium.
2.
Everything in the world has its own state – liquid, solid or gaseous. But here the water is also “wet”, because the water molecules have a certain connection between themselves and are able to “cling” to hands, objects, clothes, transferring some of their properties to them, to moisten.
The concept of “wet” is our tactile sensations, what we can describe when touching water. The receptors send signals to the brain, and the combination of movement, temperature, water pressure tells it “water is wet.”
- Explanation for a child: We couldn’t say that water is wet if our skin couldn’t feel. Water particles attach to the skin, making it temporarily wet.
3.
The aircraft is kept in the air by lift. It, in turn, occurs when air currents move towards the wing. The wing is turned at a precise angle and at a certain speed the aircraft begins to “take off”, to strive upwards. The oncoming air flow constantly supports the wing, preventing it from falling.
It is the engines that accelerate the plane, of course. Jets push the plane forward, while propellers, as it were, pull it along.
Airplane operation is affected by 4 forces – thrust, drag, weight, lift. Their interaction allows the aircraft to stay in the air.
- Explanation for a child: an airplane can take off in the air because the engineers came up with a special shape of the wings, they help the air hold it, while the engines make the plane move.
4.
Almost all major planets, and the Earth is no exception, are spherical. They took this form because they are very heavy. And their own gravitational force (gravity) gives them the shape of a ball.
If another force suddenly appeared and wanted to give the planet, for example, the shape of a cube, then when the action of this force ends, the gravitational force will again begin to “gather” the planet into a ball. The protruding parts will begin to retract until the entire surface becomes harmonious from the “point of view” of the force of gravity.
But still the Earth is not a perfect sphere – it is flattened from the side of the poles.
- An explanation for a child: our planet is very heavy, and therefore it is difficult for it to accept other forms. An invisible force that acts on our Earth “forces” it to be round.
5.
Rabbit, chicken, beef, fish… Why don’t they produce food with the most “cat” taste – the taste of mice? It’s simple: people who create food do not know the taste of mice and are not going to try.
Would cats be happy with such food – this is a big question. After all, many domestic cats, even if they catch a mouse, almost never eat it, but only brag about their prey to the owner and play with it. Scientists say that in order for a cat to want to eat a mouse, it needs to be shown this process in childhood, to develop a skill. In other words, if the mother cat did not teach to hunt, and then eat a mouse, then the cat does not really come to mind, unless she is lost in the forest and is not hungry.
- Explanation for the child: to know that the food will be tasty, you need to try it, and no one from people will eat a mouse. In addition, domestic cats may also not like the taste of mice, because they catch them, but rarely eat them.
6.
In order for a cat’s eyes to glow in the dark, there must still be some light in the room. Because this glow is nothing but a reflection of light, in a completely dark room the eyes will not glow.
The eyes of a cat have a very thin reflective layer of the eye, consisting of transparent cells. The light is not completely absorbed by the cat’s eye, but is reflected by transparent cells and comes out in a narrow beam. This property allows cats to see in the dark much better.
- Explanation for a child: a cat’s eye has special transparent particles, they can be compared with pieces of a mirror. If there is even a little light in a dark room, it will certainly be reflected from these “mirrors”, and it will seem to us that the cat’s eyes are on fire.
7.
There is a funny story that children are told about the fact that blood is actually blue and only when it comes out and comes into contact with air it turns red. Of course, this is just a joke.
The blood is always red, but the veins seem blue to us. This is due to the laws of physics about the reflection of light. The tissues of our body absorb the rays of the red spectrum, and reflect the blue. The brain “compares” the color of the vessels with the warm color of the skin and “shows” us the blue color.
- Explanation for the child. Our eyes perceive colors differently depending on how the light falls. Through a layer of skin, red appears blue to us.
8.
It is this color that will tell us about health, but other shades make us worry that something has gone wrong in the body. The brown color is obtained because food enters the small intestine from the stomach. And in its upper section – the duodenum – bile enters.
The interaction of bile with food residues, the formation of a special substance stercobilin and gives a brown tint.
Other colors indicate problems in the body. Green – dysbacteriosis or infections, light yellow – problems with the liver, red – may indicate bleeding only if you did not eat beets or tomatoes the day before.
- Explanation for a child: poop turns brown because it is colored by a special substance produced by a healthy person’s body. Other colors may mean that the body tells us about ill health and it is worth seeing a doctor.
9.
Faces and excessive smiles, to which already grown up kids may react with bewilderment, why are they? And from an excess of emotions! An adult wants to be closer to the child, to make him laugh, to cause a smile or an infectious laugh.
Therefore, he does everything for this. Sometimes remembering your childhood and having fun from the heart.
10.
This rhetorical question is not just for children.
Quite often such a situation comes from non-compliance with technical issues when laying asphalt.
According to experts, one of the reasons is soil erosion. Where the coating regularly bursts, there are problems underground. But already negligence in relation to communications – leaky water and sewer pipes can lead to soil erosion.
- Explanation for the child: if the road fails again, it may mean that the workers made a mistake when laying the asphalt, or somewhere not far underground there are leaky pipes or underground streams that wash out the road.
11.
When explaining the differences between the sexes to a child, formulate your answers according to age, psychologists say. It is worth answering the specific questions of the child, if the baby does not ask about the relationship, he does not need to explain it intrusively. He will ask about it when he is interested.
When talking about physical differences, call a spade a spade, do not hesitate to name the genitals.
In general, embarrassment and some special highlighting of this topic serves a disservice, the baby begins to think that he is asking something wrong.
Illustrator Natalia Breeva specially for AdMe.Media
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Can an ostrich call itself a bird?
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No, ostriches are not
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The train travels at a speed of 70 km/h. In which direction is the smoke flying?
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There is no electric train
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How to jump from a ten-meter ladder and not crash?
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3 birches grew.
Each birch has 7 branches.
Each branch has 3 apples.
How many apples are there?
Find out the answer
None. Apples
do not grow on birches.
Clue
An excellent mindfulness puzzle.
Guessing it to children by ear, it is important for every phrase
choose the right intonation and accents!
There are three: 2 fathers and 2 sons.
How is this possible?
Find out the answer
They were grandfather, father
and son.
Two friends played chess for 2 hours.
How many hours did each of them play?
Find out the answer
Each robot says that both of its neighbors are Minuses (*).
On the green chair – Minus.
Who’s on yellow?
* minus always says
lie.
Plus always says
the truth.
Find out the answer
Answer:
On a yellow chair
– Plus.
Comment
Both Minus neighbors are Pluses. Assuming
that one neighbor is Minus, and the second is Plus, we get
contradiction.
Logic puzzles are worth everything
1 step away from riddles.
They are helping
the child to learn to reason and find the right solutions with interest.
Identify an object that does not fit with the others – the fourth extra.
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Find out the answer
Notepad.
Comment:
Phone, tablet and laptop are electronic devices,
notepad is not.
To solve problems,
start classes online !
The yellow box contains NOT a pyramid and NOT a top. In green – NOT a spinning top.
What should be put in the blue box?
Find out the answer
Answer:
Yula.
Comment:
In yellow – a water pistol.
In green – a pyramid.
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answers.
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To guess the others you need to properly
“move the convolutions.” Great selection for the holiday: and brains
“Knead” and cheer up your friends.
2 people approach the river. There is a boat by the shore, it can only bear
one.
Both men were able to cross to the other side.
How did they do it?
Find out the answer
They were on different
shores. When the first sailed to the second, he took the boat
and also crossed to the opposite shore.
What happens if you turn right three times?
Find out the answer
Turn left.
How to find Lenin Square?
Find out the answer
Lenin length needed
multiply by the width of Lenin.
What is the longest word in Russian?
Find out the answer
Word about the shelf
Igor.
Under which tree does the hare sit when it rains?
Find out the answer
Wet.
On the table are a ruler, a pencil, compasses and an elastic band. On a piece of paper you need
draw a circle. What will you start with?
Find out the answer
Need to get a sheet
paper.
What are the earrings for simpletons called?
Find out the answer
Noodles.
In which case, six children, two dogs, four adults, climbing under
one umbrella, don’t get wet?
Find out the answer
If it doesn’t rain
will.
How many eggs can you eat on an empty stomach?
Find out the answer
One. The second is already
will not be empty.
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