Found this on WebMD http://blogs.webmd.com/healthy-children/2006/03/your-childs-fears-banishing-ogre.html
It struck a chord with me cuz I am always struggling to imagine things from Speck's POV.
It's scary to be a kid because:
- You are little and everyone else is huge.
- You feel powerless to affect the world in the way you want (of course, parents may beg to differ).
- In your short life, you have been buffeted around by forces you can neither control nor understand.
- You are pretty clueless as to how and why things happen -- especially bad things. It's all kind of magical, and magic can always have a dark side.
- You haven't had enough experience to anticipate how things are going to turn out.
- You are egocentric, so you assume that everything that happens (especially bad things) will happen to you and because of you.
- You want to be independent, but lessening the close reliance on your parents, while thrilling, is also terrifying.
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