Imagine a world where your child can sing along to Moana’s “Where You Are”, say “we share everything we get”, and actually live in a civilisation that does the same.

Imagine them looking up from the screen and recognising the world around them.

The care. The community. The belonging. The understanding that what we have can nourish more than ourselves.

No cognitive dissonance. Full alignment between what we put in front of our children and what we invite them to live within. A bridge of relatedness between the beauty they learn to love and the reality they come to know.

Because what happens when we teach a child to admire generosity, then introduce them to a world organised around withholding? When we celebrate the character who feeds everyone, yet teach them that growing up means accepting that some people will go without?

At what age are they supposed to stop expecting us to mean what we taught them?

I want to create a civilisation where they can keep that expectation. Where their understanding of care deepens as they grow, because the systems around them give it substance.

Where surplus becomes an invitation: who else can we nourish? What else can we create? What becomes possible now that we have more than we need?

Imagine your child seeing fruit gathered, meals prepared, knowledge passed on, spaces cared for, and recognising themselves within that circulation. They receive. They participate. They discover something they can contribute. Their belonging has been there all along.

And when they ask you, “Is that what we do here?”

You can say yes.

Yes, we look after each other. Yes, we organise what we have so it reaches people. Yes, the people growing our food deserve the same care as the people eating it. Yes, you are growing into a world where your gifts have somewhere to go, and your needs have somewhere to be met.

That is what I want our children to inherit: a living relationship with the values we introduce to them.

Stories can give children their first language for belonging. We can build the civilisation that answers them in that same language.

Imagine how much energy becomes available for creation when growing up does not require learning to explain away the distance between what we praise and what we practise.

Imagine the song ending.

And the belonging continuing.