No leg-pulling on my part. I truly believe there is no topic that should be strictly off-limits to children just because they are children. Again, talking only about my own children…I wouldn’t necessarily answer a question from some random child.
To clarify, my answer to the hypothetical bomb-making question wouldn’t just be an answer. It would be a whole discussion, including asking what inspired my child’s question (checking in on their state of mind) and explaining why bombs are bad and why we shouldn’t make them (reinforcing our family values). That goes for just about any question my own children might ask me…pretty much every answer will include discussion.
My daughters are all adults now, and are very similar in this way. Their own questions and answers are rarely simple.
Which is probably why we accidentally spend 3 or 4 hours on the phone with each other sometimes, lol.