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Has anyone ever noticed how adults tend to talk around kids? Its like an adult says something and its "OOOO" Ahhhhh" and "I never thought of that" and " Thats brilliant", but if a kid says it, all the adults go on talking like the kid didnt say anything. Then on the other hand kids will pat each other on the back and say "dude that was totally rad". I wonder if it stems from "Children should be seen and not heard" or "Your not old enough to be brilliant".
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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I think sometimes that I must have a family that is unique. I came along at the tail end, several years after my next older sister was born. By the time I was old enough to enter conversations, my sisters were even older, and stating their opinions, and discussing things with our parents. I think my parents really didn't know what to do with me because they really didn't expect to have any more children after Beth and Susie. They had lost the knack of treating little children like little children and so I was always listened to and allowed to say things, and to have those opinions either accepted and complimented or gently corrected. I honestly can't ever remember my parents or any of the four grandparents just dismissing what I had to say or ignoring me.
But I understand where you're coming from here. Most adults look at kids our age as airheaded hormone driven space cadets. Now this is sometimes true, as our famous experiment with cars and oak trees proves, but most of the time I think our opinions are at least as valuable as most adult's.
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You're right, Curtis.
but it works both ways: not all that many kids feel free to tell adults when the adults make sense, either (perhaps because it kind of implies that adults often don't!).
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Curtis, you are right about most adults, but not all.
I have always liked children and have always talked to them as equals. I have a wonderful collection of pictures of me underneath piles of children taken over many years at an annual garden party given by my best friend from university days. Because I was 'equal' no-one hesitated to jump on me.
I suppose I'm boasting and ought to stop.
I wonder if I can ever get that best friend's son to talk to this group. He is married with two small boys and spent some years 'exploring his gay side' and when he first saw me wearing an AIDS ribbon was just amazed. He had never realised I was gay. (And by the way he was too beautiful to touch).
Love,
Anthony
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