Superheroes

Writing Superheroes made me feel like a kid again, and only partially because I got to run around in a cloak as a direct result of that. It’s hard to remember what playing pretend was like without seeing kids playing pretend. Adults (though I hesitate to call myself that) forget what it’s like to be a kid, and as a result, it makes it difficult to interact with kids in a productive way. How are we supposed to teach children if we don’t understand them anymore? Kids have their own specific set of literacy rules and social rules, and I think this book did a good job showing what they are. It’s easy to try and dismiss kids and say that they don’t understand the way the world works and we don’t need to indulge their fantasies.

But the truth is, it’s not that kids don’t understand how the adult world works. It’s more that adults don’t understand how the kid world works.