For grown-ups

What this is

A small child asks something you cannot quite answer. How do vines stick to the wall? Why does a heavy train not crush the rails? Each story takes one of those questions and answers it properly, in a few painted pages. Every page has one idea, and one thing for small hands to do.

It is a web page. There is nothing to install and no account to make. It works on a phone or a tablet, with the sound on or off. With the sound off, the words stay on the page for you to read aloud.

It is made by a dad whose four-year-old asks a lot of questions.

How a story gets made

1. A real child asks a real question. We keep their words.
2. We find the true answer in published sources: research papers, university pages, now and then Charles Darwin.
3. We pick the few ideas a small child could say back, and give each one a page and something to do.
4. The pages are painted and the words are recorded.
5. A grown-up reads it, plays it, and checks it against the sources before it goes out.

The paintings, the code and the voice are made with AI tools. The voice is a computer voice. Every fact on a child’s page is checked against a published source, and the sources are listed under the story so you can check them too. Where the story simplifies, the notes for the grown-up say so.

Found a mistake? Tell us and we will fix it.

What we promise

• Nothing goes on a child’s page unless a source backs it.
• No ads are shown to children. Not now, not later.
• No accounts, no cookies, and no tracking of what a child taps.
• No child’s face or full name, here or anywhere we post.

Privacy, in plain words

We built this so there is almost nothing to collect.

• Playing a story sends us nothing. There are no accounts, no cookies and no analytics scripts. Taps and drags stay on your device.
• The host sees an internet address. Like every website, the company that hosts these pages (Cloudflare) sees the internet address of a device when it loads a page, in order to deliver it. We do not use that to identify anyone.
• The typefaces come from Google. The typefaces load from Google Fonts, so Google also sees an internet address when a page loads. They set no cookies.
• The question form is for grown-ups. It asks for the question. Everything else is optional. When you press send, the message goes through this site to our inbox. Nobody handles it but us and our host.
• A child’s name is shown only if you say so. If you give a first name and tick the box, the story says “Asked by Sam, age 4”. If you do not, it does not.
• Your email is used for what you asked for. Leave one with a question, and we write to you about that question. Join the list, and we send a short email when a new story is out, and now and then news for grown-ups about Kid Asked. Every email has an unsubscribe link. The list is kept by Kit, an email service. We do not sell or share addresses, and we do not use them for advertising.
• We delete what you ask us to. Write to hello@kidasked.com.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you think a child has sent us something, write to us and we will delete it.

Last updated 12 October 2026.

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