Adults these days, I tells ‘ya.
Back in my youth, adults were supposed to set the example. Work hard, don’t complain, and don’t blame children for your own difficulties in life.
Nowadays adults expect everything handed to them on a silver platter.
They couldn’t possibly adapt and improve how they interact with children, that would be asking too much. Their parents gave them a good whack every now and again, and they turned out just fine.
(Or so they claim).
Adults today expect kids to be born with a fully mature brain. Apparently they’re not supposed to have a childhood, because acting like a kid is inconvenient!
Back in my day, adults turned a blind eye upon occasion, saying things like, “kids will be kids”. When I was a kid, adults let their children roam and play outside until the streetlights came on, none of this “text me every five minutes” business.
When I was a kid, Adults had to wait until we came home to give us a piece of their mind. Cell phones with location services weren’t available for parents to constantly monitor their children.
Adults these days seem to believe accommodating the needs of kids will make them “soft”, rather than acknowledging that different developmental stages mean differing needs.
They don’t know how good they’ve got it
I tell you who’s getting soft, it’s those adults. Taking “mental health” days left-right-and-centre, pawning their kids off on babysitters or grandma and grandpa. When I was a kid, parents just pushed themselves until they blew their top, and that’s how it was.
Back in my day, parents knew their place. They didn’t go marching around, trying to tell schools what they can or cannot teach. They minded their own business, stuck to what they knew.
Besides, who has time to do someone else’s job for them? Don’t adults have enough shit to deal with, without sticking their noses where they don’t belong?
Perhaps they should get a job. Or a hobby.
Sheesh. Adults these days.
© Jillian Enright, Neurodiversity MB
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It's weird that the adults who forsake adult behavior get all the attention and fame, and the ones who actually behave maturely, like....adults, get nothing at all in comparison (they exist).
It's not like every kid is going to be a prodigy, and even those ones need help dealing with the stuff they DON'T know about. (Mozart, for example, was a genius at writing music, but, particularly as an adult, he had a lot of problems...).
You can't expect yourself to have success and respect granted to you automatically- those are earned resources. Certainly, all the keyboard warriors who are the real irresponsible adults should know that instead of hiding behind their devices.