It helps the bird to reach food in hard to get to places.
Answer:
let him decide what he wants to do??
The speaker thinks (feels) that her daughter is growing up very fast and uncontrollably, so the speaker feels a wistful feeling towards past years in which her daughter was young and just learning to ride a bike, and the speaker wishes her daughter to remain forever in her chidlike state and never grow up.
In the book, "Nethergrave", Jeremy is given a photograph with a note to do his own homework every year on his birthday from his father.
