Every Parent Can Relate to This Mom’s Struggle to Get Answers from Her Child

Every parent can relate to this mom’s struggle to get answers from her child. She asked her little one a series of simple, straightforward questions, but the answers were a bit lacking. Watch the short, but hysterical clip to hear what this mother asked her child and the less-than-helpful answers she received.

Children are not the best at making conversation. To carry on a conversation, there has to be give-and-take between the two parties. Typically, that means one person asks a question, and the other responds, elaborating and providing further information in order to fully answer the question. This process will repeat itself over the course of a conversation.

Without both parties participating in this exchange, the conversation will eventually fizzle out. The person asking the questions will soon grow frustrated by the lack of answers and likely walk away, probably in a huff, wondering why they even tried to strike up a conversation with that person in the first place. We’ve all been there, when someone is, for whatever reason, impossible to talk to, and it’s no fun.

Parents are well aware of this, and this process is demonstrated in a hilarious clip posted on YouTube. A mom asks her toddler simple questions, and her child refuses to play along, giving her non-answers every single time.

The woman, who plays both roles in the clip, asks her child what they would like to eat for lunch. That seems like an easy question, and she even provides two options. As you may have guessed, the child doesn’t pick one of them; instead, they give an answer that likely no one saw coming.

“Hey, buddy, what do you want for lunch?” she asks the toddler. “A quesadilla or mac and cheese?”

“Row, row, row your boat,” the child responds.

She asks again and gets a similar but different answer. This isn’t the only question that receives insane, nonsensical responses. The child does not answer a single question sufficiently. But, as all parents know, this is to be expected from the little ones.

Proverbs 22:6 “If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old, he will not be turned away from it.”