The smallest things

Sometimes it's easy to forget what it is that's a big deal for small children.

I go to work and see the office as a drab, grey place that is only given life by the people in it. I took the children into work on Friday and they saw it differently:

• It's a huge building with lots of car parks and therefore lots of cars.
• You have to go through Security to get a badge that allows you into the building and to get into the building you have to use a turnstile.
• To move between floors there are stairs, escalators and stairs.
• The corridors seem never ending with secret areas obscured by cube walls.
• There are computers everywhere.
• Everyone has a swivel chair and a telephone.
• People have toys near their desks like model cars and vans.
• Offices have large white boards offering endless creative possibilities.
• People treat children as special guests.

It's still possible to read the above list as an adult and consider it unremarkable, but if I read with a child's view, I remember how exciting it was to visit Dad's office, and his office was equally unremarkable.