What Time is it?

There are many questions that a child will ask throughout their younger years. And this blog is the start of my record of the questions, and my answers, to some of the most amazing questions I have heard. My son, although not diagnosed has some sensory issues at play. What they may be I don’t actually know (sensory processing disorder, ASD, ADHD) but I do know he has a difficult time fitting in, he doesn’t seem to quite think about things in the same way as what I do and I have a really hard time making things easy for him.

What Time is it? 

He asks lots of questions, many of them weird and wonderful, many of them extremely logical and you can understand why he has asked that question, and you wonder why you have never thought of asking that question before.

What Time is it?

His thirst for knowledge is second to none and I have learnt lots by researching answers for him. I would be a wonder on a quiz show now. I know how old the oldest person in the world is, who has scored the most goals in football, the tallest building in the world, the largest city, the largest airport and so on and so on. My brain is full of the answers.

What Time is it?

He also asks general day to day questions. Questions that are way older than him. He is only 5 but some questions are the types of questions you would expect from a child twice his age. He repeats the same questions even though he knows the answers. It’s almost as though he finds it reassures him to hear the same answers over and over again. 

What Time is it?

If you haven’t gathered by now his favourite question to ask is “What time is it?” On a bad day he can ask this hundreds of times in the day, on a good day just a couple but without a doubt he will ask it at least once a day. And he likes to know the specific answer. A few times I have said “nearly 3 o’clock” and that isn’t right he wants to know that it’s “ten to 3”. 

What Time is it?

And so when deciding to write this blog the only logical title I could give it is “What time is it?”. Each week I will give the detail of some of the questions that have been asked and hopefully add a bit of humour to a situation that at times can be overwhelming. If you don’t laugh you cry right?!?!

I hope this blog is relevant to other people and they can find the humour in what I write about. 

PS…..it’s 8 minutes past 3.