It was my turn. ‘I spy with my little eye something the colour purple.’ 

My eldest got to work, scanning the room, guessing this thing then that.  

After what felt like over a hundred guesses, he started walking around the room to places that were not visible in my line of sight. 

My first reaction was that he wasn’t thinking logically. I said as much, but he carried on doing it anyway.  

Then I remembered that ‘logic’ is formed by lived experience. 

Experience teaches us what works and what doesn’t, but curiosity has repeatedly shown us that there might be another way.  

Sadly, as we transition into adulthood, we stop exploring as much and start assuming more. Children are unburdened by this because curiosity is all they know.   

Our job as parents is to teach our children how the world works from our understanding of it – not a definitive understanding, but one shaped by our lived experience.  

And it’s our children’s job to remind us that the world might work a bit differently than we assume.