My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.
I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.