Growing older means noticing how quickly children become the adults you remember becoming slowly.

The children in your life grow up at a rate that looks impossible from the outside, while your own progress toward adulthood felt endless from within. Both are the same process observed from different positions. It is a small shock each time: the child you last pictured at seven is now making their own decisions, and no transition was visible to you.

Whatever children are in your life, take the time now rather than later. The window in which they want your attention is shorter than it appears and does not announce its ending. An hour given this month is worth more than a plan for when things calm down.