You could expect Him to answer now and then, because that's how children are.
People do hear His, or His messenger's voice now and then, but mostly in extreme circumstances. I know of a girl, 22yo. had God speak to her ten or twenty times:
I am glad it was not me! She was lost in the South China Sea for three days and two nights on a child's canoe. Her book is thrilling: "A Mighty Tempest" and she tells it all. She was not a Christian when she went out and was carried away by a strong ocean current. She is a Christian now. She was on TV, in newspapers and magazines, etc.
On the third day she called out: "God am I going to die?" Voice: "You are not going to die." "How can you say that? This is my third day and I can not hang on any more" Voice: "You are not going to die." She ignored 'the voice' and paddled off towards an island and had the canoe turned around by a unseen hand - which bought about her rescue by a passing boat of Christian fishermen. They thought she was a mermaid. Yes they did! Finding a pretty girl with long blond hair, 100 miles from shore was quite unusual.
I have heard that 'voice' four times in 78 years. I did not ask for it.
Jesus knows "What we have need have before we ask." (Matthew 7:8). Also, today we have the Bible to guide us, friends to seek good advice from and lots of good books.
Read one of my encounters with a 'voice' in the appendix of my book number 1. The 'voice' interrupted my Bible reading to tell me over and over to go see a lady until I said, "Alright, I'll go." My visit stopped the lady from killing herself. God is there all right and He knows your thoughts too.