Parents are embarrassed by their scientific questions

Two-thirds of parents in the UK are confused because they cannot answer common scientific questions that their children set.

The Big Bang Science Exhibition in the UK has just conducted a survey of parents' attitudes to their scientific questions. The survey involved 2,000 parents, the BBC reported.

The results show that 65% of parents feel embarrassed because they do not know the correct answer when children ask questions. The ones they fear most will only mention elementary knowledge - like "Why is the sky blue?", "I don't understand why the plane flies into the air" or "Why sometimes the moon appears in the daytime "?.

Nearly a quarter (24%) of parents feel angry or confused when they ask science questions, while 26% of parents believe their children know more about science than their parents. About 21% of the respondents admitted they answered the question or affirmed: "Nobody knows the answer to that question . " 31% of parents have to learn knowledge before answering their children.

Professor Brian Cox, spokesperson for The Big Bang Science Exhibition, said that all parents want their children to have creative thinking ability, but their creative questions can push parents. If you don't know the answer, enter the dilemma.

"More and more children want to discover science and math knowledge both inside and outside of school. So adults are not surprised when children often ask questions about the world around them," Cox said.

One in five respondents said that if they could go back to their childhood, they would study harder to answer their scientific questions. Song Cox thinks that is not a wise way of thinking.

"The best thing that moms and dads should do is find the answer with their children, so that both parents and children learn new things in the journey of knowledge discovery , " Cox advised.