In my experience, he was excellent with children, ... He...

In my experience, he was excellent with children, ... He didn't talk down to us. He may have brought himself down to our level, but he never talked down to us from above. ... Jack was always conscious of the fact that children are people. They may be small and unformed, mentally and emotionally as yet, but they are people with all of the same trials, tribulations, frights and foibles as other people.