I fear I may not be able to, sweet child.

Note the difference between "do you have less able children in your class?"

At what age are children able to distinguish between causes and effects?

She was 50 then, the mother of a 10-year-old daughter, and still able to have children.

At one point the faceless male had his back to her and she was a little child, barely able to walk.

In about half, much of the work was insufficiently demanding, particularly for older and more able children.

Hence there was no difference between these more and less able children in the strategy they used to add.

For the less able children this increased to 39 and 51 hundredths of a second.

Nor were any of the younger children able to give consistent estimates.

She would have treated him as if he were a child, not able to stand the truth, not worthy to be told it.