Yeah, fair. Updated the title and OP to be a bit more agnostic about the phenomenon.
(I do think “asking why” isn’t necessarily the active ingredient I’m interested in. I think it’s quite plausible, as Alicorn notes elsethread, that the “why?” pattern is more like random verbal patter, or serving some other function, but that there’s still some other facet of kids having a more direct, gears-y interaction with the world that’s more curious than most adults. This is still the sort of thing I might just be wrong about, but it feels like there’s something there).
Yeah, fair. Updated the title and OP to be a bit more agnostic about the phenomenon.
(I do think “asking why” isn’t necessarily the active ingredient I’m interested in. I think it’s quite plausible, as Alicorn notes elsethread, that the “why?” pattern is more like random verbal patter, or serving some other function, but that there’s still some other facet of kids having a more direct, gears-y interaction with the world that’s more curious than most adults. This is still the sort of thing I might just be wrong about, but it feels like there’s something there).