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My favorite approach is after the third or fourth why I turn it around on the child - "well, why do you think?" If they are young enough, they usually contemplate it for a few seconds and then just start on a new line of questioning, but I hope in those precious few seconds of silence they are trying figure it out themselves.

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I turn it around from the get go, in fact, I never answer any of their questions* and let them provide guesses. It is more fun than their original questions. I feel that that is really what they like me to do, as they don't come back around after their guesses and say, Dad, what do "you" think or what is the "right" answer?

*besides factual questions and even in that case, I still ask them to guess first

That's pretty insightful. I'll have to try it and see what my son does.

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