But WHY?! Here's how to stop kids from asking the question that parents dread the most

It’s official, Estelle Clifford’s daughter Ava is a threenager!

How does she know? Well, she’s started asking one of the questions that all parents dread … "why?"

"I feel like this just happened overnight too," Estelle explained to Megan on The Hits 3pm Pick-Up. "So Ava is three and at times she is quite the teenager."

"She has embraced language extremely well. And so, you know, we have some big conversations, but I put her to bed one night and then she woke up the next morning and she began [asking] ‘Why’… why! Are you serious!?"

"And sometimes it is genuinely that she's trying to discover something more and I go, 'okay, cool, this is something you're learning' … and other times I can see it's almost just like a cheeky wind-up."

While Megan agreed that she was worried about when her little ones get to that stage, she suggested a strategy for keeping your sanity when the ‘why’ question comes up.

"I'm dreading that," Megan said. "My nieces and nephews do that and I just get so wound up."

It turns out though, that there is one clever Hits listener who may have the perfect solution for stopping the never-ending "why" question in its tracks.

School teacher Sarah told Megan and Estelle her trick is so simple but incredibly effective.

"So obviously being a school teacher, I get it all the time,” Sarah explained, "and we just hit them with a question back, 'Why do you think?' and it gets them every time. It catches them off guard."

Genius!

Listen to the full "why? why? why?" discussion above!