So you're sticking with your 12 year old's understanding of philosophy? What are you, French?* i.e., even Antoine de St. Exúpèry's Le Petit Prince admitted he had a thing or two yet to learn. Let alone Sartre, Camus & Proust, who I think worked on it a little longer.

*phrase of the week is apparently so relevant or at least all-purpose, it is being extended for another week by unpopular demand.