This reminds me of one of my favorite stories in This American Life, about a very young daughter who has a lot of questions, and her dad (a professor) asks her to write them down. She comes to him with a list with questions like “are we alive? Explain.”

I don’t want to spoil it, but it’s simultaneously hilarious and a tear jerker. They just replayed it a few weeks ago, you can listen to the climax and conclusion here: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/697/alone-together/act-one-...