When Saying “I Don’t Know” is the Best Thing a Parent Can Do

Why?”

The mantra of toddlers everywhere and the bane of toddler parents everywhere.

Although listening to the word “why” on continuous loop can try anyone’s patience, at that innocent stage of the game, the questions were pretty easy to navigate. Crafting an answer from the front seat of the car didn’t even take our full attention. After all, our little people often didn’t have the attention span to absorb whatever retort we gave.

As my kids grew into pre-teens most of the questioning was di...