By Rylee Perdue

Age 11, Monroe

When I was little or maybe even you we didn't have a lot of complications. All we had to worry about was nothing. When your little all you did was play, play and did more playing. It's the only thing you were worried about. It's amazing. It feels like one day your 4 and the next day your 10 or 11. When your little there is no stress, but your older there is a lot of stress like doing homework or math or maybe having trouble reading. When you were little you had none of those things to worry about. So just remember being little, it was great. Be a child as long as you can. Make the best of it.

When your little you have feelings like happy, sad, glad and angry. Now your happy, sad, angry and you have mixed feelings. Like during homework maybe your angry or at silent reading time your happy or maybe you don't like math so your sad. When your little you could draw and be happy or you fall and your sad or maybe you want something like a cookie or ice cream and you don't get it your mad. That's what happens when your little and when your older. Never forget it.



- Rylee Perdue is a fifth-grader at Abraham Lincoln Accelerated Learning Academy, Monroe