On Tuesday, I launched The Thought Farm.

This morning, I reread my post.

Something didn’t feel right.

For more than 30 years, I’ve believed that stories help children connect with ideas—and that those connections can change lives.

Yet my launch post wasn’t telling a story.

It was explaining a philosophy.

So, I rewrote the whole thing.

Not because the philosophy had changed.

Because I had forgotten something fundamental.

Stories don’t simply support an idea.

They are the experience that gives an idea meaning.

That realization reminded me of something I’ve spent a lifetime trying to do for children:

Don’t tell them what matters.

Help them discover it.

Maybe that’s true for adults, too.