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[quote=Anonymous]OP, read some old Calvin and Hobbes comics and see how Calvin's dad answered questions. (You can make up anything at that age and they will believe you!--and one day they will point out what you told them that they believed when they were little and you will hang your head in shame)

More helpfully, perhaps--remember that Jeopardy champion won all those rounds by reading children's books at the library.

Also, it's not just about knowing "the answers", it's about learning to use one's brain, right? So maybe before looking things up, talk about what things you/your child already know, imagine reasons why something could be such and such or how something might work--have fun with thought experiments and real experiments. Don't be intimidated!

When I was a kid we had a set of encyclopedias that included different parts -- the main set, but a separate small set having to do with geography and some other subsets, including a simpler A-Z encyclopedia for kids with a lot of pics (also had the history of each letter in pictures at the beginning of each alphabetical section). It occurs to me that searching stuff online misses the random stuff I was able to learn as a young child (even though much has changed--I had no idea when my kid was born 2 kingdoms had become 5, or that starfish had become sea stars!)

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