You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.