“We are once an adult, and twice a child.”

I’ve been away.

As ever, I have a lot of blog posts in the works, halfway or quarter-way written, a few with just a title and a sentence or two reminding me what I was going to write about so I can come back to it when I have time and brainpower.   I mean to post at least once a week, more if I can, and I haven’t been doing too badly in that regard.  This time it has been a little bit longer.  Almost two weeks.  So much to write.  So much to say.  But tonight, instead of finishing one of the umpteen posts that I have started or that I have promised to readers, I am writing what needs to be written.

If you are a reader who follow my blog because I write about child development, you may…