I found you need to tailor the questions a bit more to their question and enter their frame as much as possible.
Daddy, why are there police?
Well, that’s a good question, what do you think police do?
Put bad guys in jail.
Hrm… Well, do you remember the movie we saw last month with the sheep? (Sheep Detectives it is very good and everyone should watch it.) Was the spoiler a bad guy?
No… But they did arrest them. Why?
And then we slowly work through a conversation about policing without going too deep into the details.
My sister says the trick to deal with this is to respond with something like “well, what/why do you think?”
I’ve gotten mixed results with this approach.
I found you need to tailor the questions a bit more to their question and enter their frame as much as possible.
And then we slowly work through a conversation about policing without going too deep into the details.