Hello,
My five year old son recently asked me "who made us?". Once I finished taking him from Big Bang and expanding universe through to homo habilis and evolution through natural selection I realised I might have gone too deep. That we are made from dying stars and monkeys is all he got out of it. And then he said that another kid said "a man named God made us" and that seemed easier for him to process. Anyone dealt with this? Anyone have a positive experience explaining this to a five year old? Should I just wait? Can he still be a member of the Boy Scouts?(had no clue you had to have religion for that)
Thanks
How to answer my five year old.
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Re: How to answer my five year old.
You could explain it to him the way my dad explained it to me.
Well, son. One day your mom went the bathroom and made a turd so big that it wouldn't fit down the toilet so she had to keep it. It kept on growing, and well, here you are.
That's simple enough to remember. I still remember it 35 years later, and I turned out just fine.
Well, son. One day your mom went the bathroom and made a turd so big that it wouldn't fit down the toilet so she had to keep it. It kept on growing, and well, here you are.
That's simple enough to remember. I still remember it 35 years later, and I turned out just fine.

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Re: How to answer my five year old.
I think to keep on a level that a 5-year-old can understand, you could answer that some people believe that. That being that a person called God made us. But the evidence (is "evidence" too fancy a word?) shows that we evolved from animals. There are men and women called scientists and their job is to study the world and look for evidence (clues) about how the world and the universe and all the plants and animals came to be. And their leading theory is that we evolved from simpler creatures. Then maybe try to find a book that is oriented to children that explains it and read it to him.Alg2376 wrote:Hello,
My five year old son recently asked me "who made us?". Once I finished taking him from Big Bang and expanding universe through to homo habilis and evolution through natural selection I realised I might have gone too deep. That we are made from dying stars and monkeys is all he got out of it. And then he said that another kid said "a man named God made us" and that seemed easier for him to process. Anyone dealt with this? Anyone have a positive experience explaining this to a five year old? Should I just wait? Can he still be a member of the Boy Scouts?(had no clue you had to have religion for that)
Thanks
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Or you could take the Mr. Garrison approach:
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Re: How to answer my five year old.
Hmm, 4 days from the OP to the first reply. Nobody saw this thread sooner? I don't think I saw it until today.
Whoever it was may have given up already. Hopefully not.
Whoever it was may have given up already. Hopefully not.
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Re: How to answer my five year old.
Good point!Anaxagoras wrote:Hmm, 4 days from the OP to the first reply. Nobody saw this thread sooner? I don't think I saw it until today.
Whoever it was may have given up already. Hopefully not.
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Re: How to answer my five year old.
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