Little children do not doubt their parents’ authority.  They do not question their parents’ wisdom.  They do not set themselves up as rivals to their parents in the courts of moral and practical adjudication.  They complain, sulk, resent and sometimes weep, but never with an accompanying demand or even desire for independence. Their love for and faith in and reliance upon their parents have yet to be contested by their love for and faith in and reliance upon themselves.

Unless you become as little children…