By Lily Rose

IT means to be unassuming, smile even in pain, be busy with your hands, to forgive and forget, love and not hate, give to others and survive too, be humble, question all things for knowledge, be obedient and truthful, to be playful, to rise up and dust ourselves when we fall, cry and fall asleep, then wake up as if nothing happened, allow ourselves to be cuddled by our loved ones, to receive love gratefully, sing and dance like our senators (laughs), to be helpful without being asked, and say No when we don\’t want something and accept with Joy when given etc.

These are things I observed and I am still learning from children who have not been stripped off their childhood.

They grow up to be human beings.