I tend to find out why DS wants to know why. It's usually boredom. We can do an investigation around his "why". Let him find out "why" by himself. Liebling doesn't really do "why?" though, he started it so I would give him a half-hour degree-level answer and/or run-through of my risk assessment for him. He knows it's a good way of getting my attention!

FWIW, we don't bother with TV most days. Sure it can be useful at 4am when I want to sleep a bit longer. But it's always more hassle than it's worth as DS gets cross if the wrong episode is on the DVD or he won't leave the house when I need to go out. We do a lot more music: either we play the piano, or I play as DS sings along and dances, or we both sing and dance together. Best distraction ever and good exercise for me.

(And yes, this is the child who decided tonight's conversation would be "do we eat..." naming fish, pizza, pasta, chocolate, bananas, apples, bread, water, milk, cheese... poo, wee, a trump, the bin and rubbish. Finding that we can't eat the bin was nearly had him in hysterics.)