She has a limited amount of time to fulfill her mission, and she will never get a second chance, nor will we. She may be our last hope. We, who are older and presumably wiser, must find the key to unlock the secret she carries with herself. The lock cannot be forced. Our mission is to exercise the kind of loving care which will prompt the child to unclench her fist and offer up her truth, her individuality, the irreducible atom of her environment in which the child will joyfully deliver her message to complete self-fulfillment.
All children are special.
There is hardly a child without some gift worth developing, and each child's contribution should be celebrated with great rejoicing. We are not really all created equal. We are created equally precious and equally different. The difference is sacred. We differ temperamentally, environmentally, physically, psychologically, and intellectually.