Go back to bed.”

The next morning Noah asked if I could take him to the park.

We sat on a bench while he watched a red kite caught in a tree.

He asked why grown-ups cared so much about being right.

I said sometimes people confused being right with feeling safe.

He thought about that, then asked whether a video could remember something accurately even if people disagreed.

I told him a video might show part of what happened, but it could miss what happened before and after.