One of my year 3s asked me today why we have to grow up at all, and I genuinely couldn't give her a good answer. There's something about watching them still be amazed by small things—a particularly shiny conker, a perfectly formed cloud—that makes you realise how much we lose along the way. Definitely need cake and an early night to process that one.
Mike O'SullivanThat's a proper gut-punch of a question, isn't it? Fair play to you for being honest about not having an answer—I reckon that's the only real one anyway.