“Daddy” said my 6 year old daughter recently “How will I know when I am a snowboarder?”

“Ah” I said.  “A very perceptive question for one so young, you clearly are very intelligent and will achieve level 6 in your next literacy exam, if you work hard and eat all your broccoli.  Rest assured that your snowboarderness will emerge, like a crepuscular mist gathering in the valley, slowly, imperceptibly, and then suddenly it will be there, all around you.”

“Oh.” She said. “If I eat all 3 carrots can I leave 2 green beans?”

I then realised that children need clarity on such matters, so I wrote down all the ways that my little Sukie Snowdrop would know that she had crossed the great divide from being able to snowboard, to being a snowboarder.  Here is what I came up with: