ABSTRACT
Out of the mouths of babes and Year 5s there often comes a great and embarrassing truth. The embarrassment is usually rooted in the sudden adult realisation that we have been getting something completely wrong about their feelings, wishes, needs and attitudes. We have been underestimating, overestimating, or (most often) pointlessly hiding something from them which they have known about for months. If we have any grace, we blush. If not, we bluster. But sometimes the only graceful response is an embarrassed gulp and a throwing of the hands into the air in surrender.
