Questions of Childhood I don't know if all children have as many questions as I did, but I remember thinking about things a lot. And not the useful kinds of things that other people apparently thought about and knew, like how to climb the bleachers in the gym without tripping. I fell spectacularly on those bleachers at my school, in front of everyone. Not just once. Multiple times. It generally happened because I was thinking about something else, and forgot to pay attention