23 ANSWERING YOUR CHILD’S QUESTIONS EARLY
DEPOSITS ANSWERS FOR THEIR LATE QUESTIONS WHEN YOU’RE NOT AROUND.

Answering “why” early saves sorrow later.

“Johnny’s questions seem endless.”

The early years of childhood are filled with a curious stream of questions about why. Once you have given the same answers over and over again, repeat the questions and see if your children have “gotten it.”

Deposit truth early in your child. Later in life, when you’re not around, your child will have a reservoir of answers to ongoing questions about self, life, and God.

Without your early, truthful answers, a child will mature without foundations and virtue. The world offers too many wrong answers to life’s important questions. Children are bombarded with TV, video, music, computer, school, and peer answers to life’s questions. But drinking from those often contaminated and polluted wells can produce stinking thinking and bad attitudes.

Your truthful answers, rooted in God’s Word, given early in a child’s life, produce deep wells of living water from which a child can drink for a lifetime.

Young people can live a clean life by obeying your word. I worship you with all my heart. Don’t let me walk away from your commands. I treasure your word above all else; it keeps me from sinning against you (Psalm 119:9–11 CEV).