Children are the perfect expression of our divine nature.

A newborn takes pleasure and comfort in silence, in the embrace of a parent, and in the simple luxuries of a full belly, a warm blanket, and a long nap. The child is free from attachments to material possessions and places, by nature and necessity. It is as we age that we learn these negative behaviors. Our curiosity leads to desire, and our interests create attachment and opinion. Necessarily, we begin to create pride in our hearts, as our knowledge and experience increases, so do our expectations of the proper way in which we should be treated. Beyond this, we experience discomfort when separated from the idols we create for ourselves a stress reaction to the removal of our comfort stimuli except now, our comfort stimuli is no longer the loving embrace of a hope-filled parent, but rather, the cold touch of metal and plastic Babylonian idols of the worst kind. Can we then wonder at the proclamations of Christ regarding children and their nature? Of such is the kingdom of God (Luke 18:16). Children seek love and freely give it. A child can not quantify or qualify the love they offer to their parents, nor does a child conceive of a concept of lust. A childs aggression and temper are instinctual, not hostile. This is part of the reason so many adults find children to be both fascinating and a little frightening. There is something of the wild left in children something the society of adults fears very much and does its best to destroy as the child ages. This wildness, this touch of the creator, is both beautiful and frightening. Where the adult seeks to control its environment, the child seeks simply to interact with it to play with it. We destroy the wildness in our children because we cannot control it. A child is the perfect expression of free agency. The age of accountability is not the age in which a child gains his or her decision making abilities; it is rather the age in which the child might actually start to consider the non-distinct outcome. In other words, agency can really be described as the ability to make the child-like decision, to allow simple desires and humility to guide our actions and thoughts rather than pride and lust. The very essence of humility, a childs first instinct is to question his or her surroundings. It is through adults that a child learns to withhold questions for the sake of pride, and this may be the most damaging lesson we pass on to our youth. When an adult would wallow in ignorance, a child questions, why?, where?, how?. Thus, our greatest minds are those who never learn the lesson we engrain in all the other children.