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Questions deserve answers.

Kids are curious. Most adults aren't. How does that happen? Well, most kids

stop being curious because most adults around them weren't curious. The trait wasn't encouraged,

so it disappeared. As a kid, the future outdoorsman, Stephen Rinella, was curious.

But instead of stifling or shutting down that curiosity, even if it was occasionally annoying,

his parents facilitated it, pushed him to follow through on it.

As he writes in his wonderful book, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World, which you can get at the painted porch, He says, I was taught that questions deserved answers.

At times, questions demanded answers. If I wondered about a particular bird, I was tasked with

finding it in one of the guidebooks that were kept on a shelf above the piano. Trees weren't just

trees. They had names and attributes. We have to do this with our kids and not stop, whatever their age.

Remember what Sandra Day O'Connor said? She said, if you're not curious, you're not smart.

Curiosity leads to answers, leads to discovery, which leads to being a smart and capable person in the

world. When our kids express an interest when they have a question,

we have to fan that spark. We have to teach them that they deserve. No, they must demand and

answer. Things have names and attributes and an interesting and educated life. It's about

finding out what they are. Don't be the end of their curiosity. be the influence that made it a lifelong happen.

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