Kids have their own opinions about nearly everything. If you have ever given them a platform on which to share these opinions, you will often be surprised, and likely delighted, by their emphatic thoughts.

They don’t always get a chance to exercise these opinions; so much of their world is already set up and laid out for them. But the spaces where they are permitted freedom, they will gladly use it.

My 8-year-old son earlier this year expressed that he wants to be an Accelerated Reader millio...