 And eventually this longing is realized. Baby becomes a toddler, but the new toddler is still not satisfied. What does she want now? Does she want to be a big kid? Well, yeah, kind of, that would be cool, but she's already looking beyond that. She wants to be a grown-up, a fully-fledged grown-up with a house, a car, and a family. And so we spend our entire childhoods wishing that we weren't children.