What I am saying is that Jesus teaching is a corrective to a culture that is way out of balance. Look at them, he said, they are inquisitive and hopeful. They are playful and open minded. They are messy and disorganized. They are not afraid to be shaped and molded.
Adults get hard and inflexible, set in their ways.
How will they ever learn the ways of the kingdom. To hard adults he said, you must be born again, enter the world as a child so that you can be accepting and loving and not so critical, experiencing life in its newness and wonder everyday like a child. Touch things, smell things, look at them a long time, be curious and questioning and vulnerable. Be fidgety and spontaneous and not afraid to try it. Those are the ways of the kingdom.