Do not ask him, "How was your day?" (He doesn't have the words). Ask him, "What level did you beat?" or "What was the funniest thing that happened?"

At 11, bodies are wildly asynchronous. In any given 5th-grade class, you have a 5’9” boy with a mustache sitting next to a 4’8” boy who still believes in Santa.

was where you went to find the best texture packs for Minecraft or to debate whether Skyrim would actually live up to the hype (it did). It was a pre-9GAG, pre-Reddit mainstream aggregation point for the "cool kid" info pipeline.

: Remember that it's okay to make mistakes. You're still figuring things out, and it's normal to stumble sometimes. Learn from your mistakes and move forward.