Babies and young children look at us with full eye contact, and none of the self-consciousness and shame that comes with adulthood. They “are the R&D department of the human species, the blue-sky guys, while we adults are production and marketing,” as Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, says.[9] No snark, no cynicism, no sarcasm, no sniping. I wanted to be a blue-sky guy. My children were leading me back to the world of childhood.
