But I've learned a new trick. I have hidden my pencils in the one place they never visit. The waste basket. But that's another story. I understand now that it is all in the universal scheme of things.
Children do have their mission.
People need jobs, and children are a key ingredient to full employment. So children keep us all employed. Children are responsible for at least two thirds of the world's economy. They either break it, lose it, wear it out, or outgrow it, so that everything they touch has to be replaced within a few days to a few months. Raising children can be amusing, or it can turn into a nightmarish battle.