Understanding China

The Chinese version of a pet store is so called “flower, bird,fish market”. When I was little, I loved to go to it.
Individuals can sell many live things there – dogs, turtles,goldfish, rabbits, live crawfish and silkworms. It is simply a market.
Obviously, those animals don’t necessarily get humane treatmentas those in the US.  But for kinds, it is a great place to explore.
My mom bought me some silkworms as pets. I need to findmulberry leaves to feed them. If I forgot, they would die.
The droppings of silkworms can be used in certain Chinesemedicine prescriptions – as a natural internal cleanser for your body.
Silkworms were very cute and gentle. I observed their cycles oflife – from eating, pooping, spitting out silk thread to bundlethemselves..
into cocoons, to eventually become moths. It was a fascinatingexperience for me to learn and to care for things so fragile.
I also had raised a pair of crayfish as pet. I did not knowthey were eatable. So I fed them rice and meat. They eventually died.
Anyway, some time I missed my childhood when I can explore andexperiment many things myself, when I can interact with the nature.
In today’s society, everything has become so artificial.Children learn and study in ways that adults design for them. Is thatright?