One of the great joys that I had teaching children was their innocence
Sadly Jerry the children I teach seem to have lost most of that (Y1 age 5/6) and I find it so sad that they have lost the sense of magic and wonder whether it be about god or Santa or anything else. I hope my own children are different but I do recall shortly after his father had died my son, then 7 now 15, said "Do you think my Dad's gone to heaven? Being an atheist I tried to be fairly non commital and said that wherever he was I expect he's watching us and is happy etc. "Well" said Alec " If he has I expect he'll take over god's job 'cos he's not doing it very well if he lets people like my Dad die!"