The kid who asks a million questions isn’t annoying. They’re doing exactly what brains are built to do.

Questions are how understanding gets assembled, and a child firing off dozens of them is running that process at full speed with no embarrassment attached. Somewhere in the school years most people learn to throttle it, less because the questions stopped mattering and more because asking started to look like not knowing. The instinct was right the first time.

Count how many questions you ask out loud in a day and see whether the number surprises you. Ask one you have been sitting on because it felt too basic. If a younger kid in your life is in full question mode, answer a few of them.