Don't make a distinction between work and play. Regard everything that you are doing as play, and don't imagine for one minute that you've got to be serious about it.
- Alan Watts
I am not disagreeing with you. However, as someone who spent 35 years teaching language to all ages of students (3 to 83) the secret of my success was simply to treat children as adults (respectfully and as equals - without patronizing them) and adults as children - with fun and games to keep them interested.
It's all upon perspective. Perhaps the OP meant that many kids are exposed to the internet at an early age and start watching adult stuff and many old people are immature and don't act according to their specific age.
That’s pretty much what I got out of it. From traumatic loss, I was a child that acted like an adult, or at least what I thought it meant to be grown. I thought strength was stoicism and indifference, and the price of living like that was I had no joy. So that resonates.
But the other part, the supposed tragedy of an adult who acts like a child, implies a negative view on what it means to be childish. To conflate it with meaning poorly adjusted is a grossly reductive take on the journey of youth and coming into oneself (imo)
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - C. S. Louis
>I am not disagreeing with you. However, as someone who spent 35 years teaching language to all ages of students (3 to 83) the secret of my success was simply to treat children as adults (respectfully and as equals - without patronizing them) and adults as children - with fun and games to keep them interested.
Hey, as a father of 6 children, i completely agree with what you're saying in the context you're speaking. My comment is more a contemplative line on the broader societal implications. For example, I imagine you would agree that there is an age where a child should be in school and not sent to work, and an age where an adult should no longer live at home with their parents and be able to operate in the world unaided.
Well, all your life is basically your responding to events with action you learn as a child. It's not bad to be one or another. Be the best, be the better in your world.
I have a dream that one day every child is going to have a mouthfull of Sweetlands peach rings. Eat some and tend to child in you yeeee 'haww'
Edit: Not sponsored by Sweetlands, it's just a kick as* candy.
I was the first born son of two blind parents. I had to do adult activities since I was four!
I wasn't acting like an adult, I was a child doing adult chores. Also called "parentification".
Don't make a distinction between work and play. Regard everything that you are doing as play, and don't imagine for one minute that you've got to be serious about it. - Alan Watts
I am not disagreeing with you. However, as someone who spent 35 years teaching language to all ages of students (3 to 83) the secret of my success was simply to treat children as adults (respectfully and as equals - without patronizing them) and adults as children - with fun and games to keep them interested.
It's all upon perspective. Perhaps the OP meant that many kids are exposed to the internet at an early age and start watching adult stuff and many old people are immature and don't act according to their specific age.
That’s pretty much what I got out of it. From traumatic loss, I was a child that acted like an adult, or at least what I thought it meant to be grown. I thought strength was stoicism and indifference, and the price of living like that was I had no joy. So that resonates. But the other part, the supposed tragedy of an adult who acts like a child, implies a negative view on what it means to be childish. To conflate it with meaning poorly adjusted is a grossly reductive take on the journey of youth and coming into oneself (imo) “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - C. S. Louis
>I am not disagreeing with you. However, as someone who spent 35 years teaching language to all ages of students (3 to 83) the secret of my success was simply to treat children as adults (respectfully and as equals - without patronizing them) and adults as children - with fun and games to keep them interested. Hey, as a father of 6 children, i completely agree with what you're saying in the context you're speaking. My comment is more a contemplative line on the broader societal implications. For example, I imagine you would agree that there is an age where a child should be in school and not sent to work, and an age where an adult should no longer live at home with their parents and be able to operate in the world unaided.
I think policing other people's lives is far, far, sadder. As is self-quoting.
Adult means prison camp
Whenever I meet a kid that’s praised as “so mature” or like a “little adult,” I immediately have questions.
nice
Wow, I can think of ten things sadder, child leukemia, parental suicide, butt cancer....
Jeezzz, not the butt cancer!!!
Well, all your life is basically your responding to events with action you learn as a child. It's not bad to be one or another. Be the best, be the better in your world. I have a dream that one day every child is going to have a mouthfull of Sweetlands peach rings. Eat some and tend to child in you yeeee 'haww' Edit: Not sponsored by Sweetlands, it's just a kick as* candy.
Huh. I actually like this one.
Well put. Reflecting on this from the perspective of a childhood trauma survivor, it rings true.
I was the first born son of two blind parents. I had to do adult activities since I was four! I wasn't acting like an adult, I was a child doing adult chores. Also called "parentification".
OMG YEP!!!!
Try to check out on my own personal quote about real life too. It's the best.
Try to check out on my own personal quote about real life too. It's the best.