Is Remembering Enough?

Every time I happen across a children’s television program where adult actors are pretending to be children I am grateful that those of us who write for young people are permitted to appear in the world in our adult clothes. We are even allowed to grow old!

What we must do, however, to make the leap from our own world to those we serve is to remember what most adults prefer to forget …our own childhoods.

It’s understandable that few adults want to retain a deep knowledge of their own young selv...