Navigating the complexities of modern life can be challenging for adults, so it's easy to imagine how bewildering it must be for a child—especially one who is perceptive, inquisitive, and searching for answers. When you consider an existence filled with rigidity, prejudice, indifference, deception, cruelty, conformity, hypocrisy, death, religion, unquestioning faith, and mysteriousness, not to mention adults who seem…