Amazing just how easily influenced children truly are. A wonder that any of us are able to sift through it all and attempt to create what we might call our 'own thought'. Development of the mind should certainly be constant and progressive for humans. But some difficult factors I've recognized as I raise my own children is how quickly they learn, how quickly they change their mind, how they believe many things, at once, even if much of what they believe is contradictory, and how quickly they can forget...
We are all children in the mind. I've yet to believe that I have encountered a 'fully developed' mind. I do believe that the climax of mental development is the last instant of being able to recognize self and life, before death. Until that point is reached, I believe, it would be difficult for one to say, 'I know all that I need to know,' or, 'There is nothing left for me to learn'.
With the concept of being immature, or a child, there comes the burden of authority.

Some believe we need sorts of authority to guide children, to help them recognize who they are, what they are, where they are, and what not to believe, and what to believe. The authority which is allowed to guide children is intended to aid progressive, positive development, I believe. But how well does that work in this era.

That was what I found so amazing about influence, how easy it is to believe what is said, from the authority to the childlike mind, the mind seeking exposure, seeking 'development'.

What is the result if occasionally the 'child' mind seems to exceed the 'development' of the authority?