12 Reasons your Child is Smarter than You

The questions stay the same but we believe we have all the answers

We make our minds up and remain resolute of our beliefs and convictions. Even the things we don’t know see’s us posture like we do as we learnt long ago that indifference and not knowing is a weakness to be avoided. Children are constantly asking why. Their well of cumulative knowledge is consistently being filled and kept fresh while adults have grown stagnant by forgetting how to and what questions to ask.

We evolve from a process of continuous discovery by retreating into a position whereby we fiercely defend the opinions we have built up, fortified and proudly worn for years. These become unchangeable due to the emotional damage that conceding we were wrong would bring. We fail to recognise this in others though and become convinced we can alter their when we ourselves cannot be changed. Children are like plasticine, they can be moulded into any shape, they can experience growth and refinement. Adults though are more fixed in their mindset, they have hardened and change requires destroying part of themselves. Children don’t recognise change as an obstacle, they embrace it as an opportunity for discovery.

Black and white are replaced by shades, tones and tints of grey while we become aware that the flatness of the world is home to dissenting voices and…