Isn't Childhood a Challenge to All of Us?

i think hat that's the challenge to all of us, not to forget our childhood and to forget its possibilities. That's what children have, a spontaneous, ongoing direction that is theirs. Let's restrain ourselves as we endeavour to work with our children to help them to be a bit more civil sometimes. But let's not banish from them the positive side of childhood,. Its yearning interest in the world, almost unquenchable appetite for finding out about things and experience them. Not in order to be lawless or difficult or self indulgent, but in order to explore this universe, which is our task. Isn't that what the religions tell us? To explore the world and