I think the most amazing thing about children is that they have little sense of self- no self-consciousness. How often can you get an adult to fix their gaze at you in public for longer than a split second, before one of you looks away? Yet children will look on in curiosity, they will watch you, they will smile back when you smile. At what age is this lost? When do we start reflexively averting our eyes? To remember what it was like to be a kid...