Children are not usually seen as having keen, critical perception that can be of deep use to us.  This young person, on the left, is evidently displeased, and I tried to show his dignity through composition. For example, by cropping out the person he is looking at, his displeasure becomes more impersonal, harder to sum up and dismiss. The deepest desire of every person, every child, I learned from Aesthetic Realism, is to like the world on an honest basis, which includes trying to be an accurate critic of it.   Another photograph, which on the surface seems very different, is the baby bathed in sunlight. Light, for a long time, has been associated with knowledge, and he does appear to be musing on the nature of the everyday things he sits in the midst of. I think the upshot is they are potential friends he can like without fooling himself. For photographs on a related theme see Girl entering tunnel and Boy welcoming flowers.