How does he manage to be so aware of what he doesn’t know? “Of course, I could be wrong,” he says over and over, offering his opinions in the most unassuming, gentle way. And his brother, talking about how baseball satisfies our need for drama (“We do not have that kind of suspense in our lives.”), he’s doing it too — thinking, connecting, reflecting — and he’s 7!

A self-aware philosopher who is 9 and his thoughtful 7yo brother