Every child builds a world that makes sense to them.
Field Notes
Adults sometimes mistake a quiet child for a lonely one. But many children are simply somewhere else—building worlds with rules of their own, where sticks become deer, pinecones become rabbits, and every guest has a place at the table.
We spend so much of childhood learning how to fit into the world we’ve been given that it’s easy to overlook the worlds we create for ourselves. Those private places of imagination are often where curiosity grows, confidence begins, and a sense of belonging first takes root.
Perhaps the goal was never to make every child fit the same world.
Perhaps it was to leave enough room for each of them to build one of their own.