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309 age-appropriate explanations for every question your child asks
Life & Emotions
Death & Grief
How to Explain Death to a Child
Death & Grief
What Happens When Someone Dies
Death & Grief
How to Explain a Pet Dying to a Child
Death & Grief
What Does Grief Mean?
Death & Grief
How to Explain a Grandparent Dying
Death & Grief
What Does Heaven Mean?
Death & Grief
Why Do People Die?
Death & Grief
What Is a Funeral?
Death & Grief
What Does It Mean to Be in Heaven?
Death & Grief
How to Explain Miscarriage to a Child
Death & Grief
What Is Cremation?
Death & Grief
What Does Rest in Peace Mean?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Anxiety?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Depression?
Feelings & Emotions
What Does Angry Mean?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Empathy?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Jealousy?
Feelings & Emotions
What Does Lonely Mean?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Fear?
Feelings & Emotions
What Does Embarrassed Mean?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Frustration?
Feelings & Emotions
What Does Grateful Mean?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Confidence?
Feelings & Emotions
What Does Disappointed Mean?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Stress?
Feelings & Emotions
What Does Proud Mean?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Forgiveness?
Feelings & Emotions
What Does Overwhelmed Mean?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Patience?
Feelings & Emotions
What Is Love?
Feelings & Emotions
What Does Shy Mean?
Mental Health
What Is ADHD?
Mental Health
What Is Autism?
Mental Health
What Is a Therapist?
Mental Health
What Is a Panic Attack?
Mental Health
What Does Dyslexia Mean?
Mental Health
What Is OCD?
Mental Health
What Is a Meltdown?
Mental Health
What Is Self-Esteem?
Mental Health
What Does Trauma Mean?
Mental Health
What Is Mindfulness?
Mental Health
What Is an Eating Disorder?
Mental Health
What Is Bipolar Disorder?
Mental Health
What Is PTSD?
Mental Health
What Is Sensory Processing?
Mental Health
What Is Burnout?
Self & Identity
What Does Identity Mean?
Self & Identity
What Does Unique Mean?
Self & Identity
What Is Gender?
Self & Identity
What Is Consent?
Self & Identity
What Does Introvert Mean?
Self & Identity
What Is Self-Care?
Self & Identity
What Does Brave Mean?
Self & Identity
What Is a Role Model?
Self & Identity
What Is Peer Pressure?
Self & Identity
What Does Respect Mean?
Self & Identity
What Is Integrity?
Self & Identity
What Does Responsible Mean?
Family & Relationships
Divorce & Separation
How to Explain Divorce to a Child
Divorce & Separation
Why Do Parents Get Divorced?
Divorce & Separation
What Does Separated Mean?
Divorce & Separation
What Is Custody?
Divorce & Separation
Why Can't We All Live Together?
Divorce & Separation
What Is a Step-Parent?
Divorce & Separation
What Does Blended Family Mean?
Divorce & Separation
Is It My Fault My Parents Are Divorcing?
Divorce & Separation
What Does Alimony Mean?
Divorce & Separation
Why Do Parents Fight?
Family Structure
What Is Adoption?
Family Structure
What Is a Foster Family?
Family Structure
Why Do Some Families Have Two Moms or Two Dads?
Family Structure
What Is a Single Parent?
Family Structure
What Does Related Mean?
Family Structure
What Is an Ancestor?
Family Structure
What Is a Guardian?
Family Structure
What Does Orphan Mean?
Family Structure
Why Do Some Kids Live with Grandparents?
Family Structure
What Is Surrogacy?
Family Structure
What Is IVF?
Family Structure
What Does Estranged Mean?
New Baby & Siblings
Why Is Mommy's Tummy So Big?
New Baby & Siblings
Where Do Babies Come From? (Simple Version)
New Baby & Siblings
Why Does the Baby Cry So Much?
New Baby & Siblings
What Is a Twin?
New Baby & Siblings
Why Can't I Be an Only Child?
New Baby & Siblings
What Is Breastfeeding?
New Baby & Siblings
What Does Premature Mean?
New Baby & Siblings
Why Do I Have to Share with My Sibling?
Friendships & Social
What Is Bullying?
Friendships & Social
What Is Cyberbullying?
Friendships & Social
What Does It Mean to Be a Good Friend?
Friendships & Social
What Is Gossip?
Friendships & Social
What Does Exclude Mean?
Friendships & Social
What Is a Clique?
Friendships & Social
What Does Toxic Friendship Mean?
Friendships & Social
What Is Peer Pressure?
Friendships & Social
What Does Popular Mean?
Friendships & Social
What Is Conflict Resolution?
Friendships & Social
What Is Compromise?
Friendships & Social
What Does Loyal Mean?
Love & Romance
What Is a Boyfriend/Girlfriend?
Love & Romance
What Is a Crush?
Love & Romance
What Does Married Mean?
Love & Romance
What Is a Wedding?
Love & Romance
What Is Consent in Relationships?
Love & Romance
What Does Heartbreak Mean?
Love & Romance
What Is a Date?
Love & Romance
Why Do People Kiss?
Body & Health
Where Babies Come From
Where Do Babies Come From?
Where Babies Come From
How Are Babies Made? (Ages 4-6)
Where Babies Come From
How Are Babies Made? (Ages 7-9)
Where Babies Come From
How Are Babies Made? (Ages 10-12)
Where Babies Come From
How Does a Baby Grow Inside Mommy?
Where Babies Come From
How Are Babies Born?
Where Babies Come From
What Is a C-Section?
Where Babies Come From
What Is an Umbilical Cord?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is Puberty?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is a Period?
Puberty & Growing Up
Why Is My Body Changing?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is Body Hair?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is Acne?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is a Growth Spurt?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is a Bra?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is Deodorant For?
Puberty & Growing Up
Why Do Boys' Voices Change?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Are Hormones?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is Body Odor?
Puberty & Growing Up
What Is a Wet Dream?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is Cancer?
Illness & Hospitals
Why Do People Get Sick?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is a Hospital?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is Surgery?
Illness & Hospitals
What Are Germs?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is an Allergy?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is a Vaccine?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is Diabetes?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is Asthma?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is an Ambulance For?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is a Pandemic?
Illness & Hospitals
What Is Mental Illness?
Disability & Differences
What Is a Disability?
Disability & Differences
Why Does That Person Use a Wheelchair?
Disability & Differences
What Is Down Syndrome?
Disability & Differences
What Does Deaf Mean?
Disability & Differences
What Does Blind Mean?
Disability & Differences
Why Does My Friend Act Differently?
Disability & Differences
What Is a Service Dog?
Disability & Differences
What Is Cerebral Palsy?
Disability & Differences
What Is Epilepsy?
Disability & Differences
What Does Special Needs Mean?
Addiction & Substances
What Is Alcohol?
Addiction & Substances
What Are Drugs?
Addiction & Substances
What Is Addiction?
Addiction & Substances
What Is Smoking?
Addiction & Substances
What Is Vaping?
Addiction & Substances
What Is Marijuana?
Addiction & Substances
Why Do People Drink Beer?
Addiction & Substances
What Is Rehab?
Science & Nature
Space & Universe
What Is a Black Hole?
Space & Universe
Why Is the Sky Blue?
Space & Universe
What Is the Sun?
Space & Universe
What Is a Planet?
Space & Universe
Why Does the Moon Change Shape?
Space & Universe
What Is a Star?
Space & Universe
What Is Gravity?
Space & Universe
What Is an Astronaut?
Space & Universe
What Is the Milky Way?
Space & Universe
Are Aliens Real?
Space & Universe
What Is a Meteor?
Space & Universe
How Big Is the Universe?
Environment & Climate
What Is Climate Change?
Environment & Climate
What Is Pollution?
Environment & Climate
What Is Recycling?
Environment & Climate
What Is Global Warming?
Environment & Climate
What Is an Endangered Species?
Environment & Climate
What Is Deforestation?
Environment & Climate
Why Are the Oceans Important?
Environment & Climate
What Is Carbon Footprint?
Environment & Climate
What Is Renewable Energy?
Environment & Climate
What Is an Ecosystem?
Society & Government
Government & Politics
What Is Democracy?
Government & Politics
What Does the President Do?
Government & Politics
What Are Taxes?
Government & Politics
What Is Voting?
Government & Politics
What Is the Constitution?
Government & Politics
What Is Congress?
Government & Politics
What Is a Law?
Government & Politics
What Is Immigration?
Government & Politics
What Is a Republican/Democrat?
Government & Politics
What Is the Supreme Court?
Government & Politics
What Is a Protest?
Government & Politics
What Is Freedom of Speech?
Race & Equality
What Is Racism?
Race & Equality
Why Do People Have Different Skin Colors?
Race & Equality
What Was Slavery?
Race & Equality
What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
Race & Equality
What Does Equality Mean?
Race & Equality
What Is Discrimination?
Race & Equality
What Is Privilege?
Race & Equality
What Is Diversity?
Race & Equality
Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?
Race & Equality
What Is Prejudice?
Race & Equality
What Is Segregation?
Race & Equality
What Is a Stereotype?
War & Conflict
What Is War?
War & Conflict
Why Do Countries Fight?
War & Conflict
What Is Terrorism?
War & Conflict
What Is a Refugee?
War & Conflict
What Is the Military?
War & Conflict
What Is a Bomb?
War & Conflict
What Was the Holocaust?
War & Conflict
What Is Peace?
Money & Work
Money Basics
What Is Money?
Money Basics
What Is Inflation?
Money Basics
What Is a Bank?
Money Basics
What Is Debt?
Money Basics
What Is a Mortgage?
Money Basics
What Are Taxes?
Money Basics
What Is a Budget?
Money Basics
What Is Interest?
Money Basics
What Does Afford Mean?
Money Basics
What Is the Stock Market?
Money Basics
What Is a Credit Card?
Money Basics
What Is Insurance?
Technology
Internet & Social Media
What Is the Internet?
Internet & Social Media
What Is Social Media?
Internet & Social Media
What Is Cyberbullying?
Internet & Social Media
What Is a Password?
Internet & Social Media
What Is Privacy Online?
Internet & Social Media
What Is a Scam?
Internet & Social Media
What Is Fake News?
Internet & Social Media
Why Can't I Have a Phone Yet?
Internet & Social Media
What Is Screen Time?
Internet & Social Media
What Is TikTok?
Internet & Social Media
What Is a Digital Footprint?
Internet & Social Media
What Is Hacking?
AI & Robots
What Is Artificial Intelligence?
AI & Robots
What Is a Robot?
AI & Robots
Can Robots Think?
AI & Robots
What Is ChatGPT?
AI & Robots
Will Robots Take Our Jobs?
AI & Robots
What Is Coding?
AI & Robots
What Is an Algorithm?
AI & Robots
What Is Machine Learning?
Religion & Beliefs
God & Spirituality
What Is God?
God & Spirituality
Why Do People Pray?
God & Spirituality
What Is Heaven?
God & Spirituality
What Is Hell?
God & Spirituality
What Is Faith?
God & Spirituality
What Is the Soul?
God & Spirituality
What Is a Miracle?
God & Spirituality
What Is Sin?
God & Spirituality
Does God Exist?
God & Spirituality
Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?
World Religions
What Is Christianity?
World Religions
What Is Islam?
World Religions
What Is Judaism?
World Religions
What Is Hinduism?
World Religions
What Is Buddhism?
World Religions
What Is the Bible?
World Religions
What Is the Quran?
World Religions
What Is Atheism?
World Religions
Why Are There Different Religions?
World Religions
What Is a Church/Mosque/Temple?
World Religions
What Is Baptism?
World Religions
What Is Meditation?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Christmas Really About?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Hanukkah?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Ramadan?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Easter?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Diwali?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Thanksgiving?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Halloween?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Eid?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Chinese New Year?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Kwanzaa?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Passover?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Day of the Dead?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Lent?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
Holidays & Traditions
What Is Veterans Day?
Big Questions
Philosophy & Ethics
What Is the Meaning of Life?
Philosophy & Ethics
What Is Right and Wrong?
Philosophy & Ethics
What Is Fair?
Philosophy & Ethics
Why Do Bad Things Happen?
Philosophy & Ethics
What Is Truth?
Philosophy & Ethics
What Is Karma?
Philosophy & Ethics
What Is a Conscience?
Philosophy & Ethics
What Is Morality?
Philosophy & Ethics
What Is Free Will?
Philosophy & Ethics
Why Are People Different?
Existential Questions
Why Can't We Live Forever?
Existential Questions
What Happens After We Die?
Existential Questions
Are We Alone in the Universe?
Existential Questions
Why Am I Here?
Existential Questions
What Is the Universe Made Of?
Existential Questions
What Is Time?
Existential Questions
What Is Infinity?
Existential Questions
Did Something Create the Universe?
Current Events
Safety & Emergencies
What Is a School Lockdown?
Safety & Emergencies
What Is a Natural Disaster?
Safety & Emergencies
What Is a Fire Drill?
Safety & Emergencies
What Is 911?
Safety & Emergencies
What Is Stranger Danger?
Safety & Emergencies
What Is a School Shooting?
Safety & Emergencies
What Is Kidnapping?
Safety & Emergencies
What Is an Earthquake?
Safety & Emergencies
What Is a Tornado?
Safety & Emergencies
What Should I Do in an Emergency?
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