Why kids hate adults, part pi^e
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kengrI just got reminded of yet another classic case of older folks *assuming* things...
I was about 7, at a summer camp. On a hike the counselor detoured us of the trail a bit to look for fools gold (iron pyrite crystals). He set us to digging. Only thing was he never thought to explain what fools gold *was* or what it looked like.
I see it *all the time* when adults (and even older "minors" (the counselor was a high school student)) are dealing with kids. They assume that because they know something and it ain't math or "tech stuff" then *of course* the kid will know it.
It's *really* bad when it's a "how to behave" thing. :-(
It must be related to the way so many folks seem to have no memory of what life was like as a kid.
I mean yeah, they can remember facts, but they seem to block what it felt like. And not recall a lot of other things as well.
I was about 7, at a summer camp. On a hike the counselor detoured us of the trail a bit to look for fools gold (iron pyrite crystals). He set us to digging. Only thing was he never thought to explain what fools gold *was* or what it looked like.
I see it *all the time* when adults (and even older "minors" (the counselor was a high school student)) are dealing with kids. They assume that because they know something and it ain't math or "tech stuff" then *of course* the kid will know it.
It's *really* bad when it's a "how to behave" thing. :-(
It must be related to the way so many folks seem to have no memory of what life was like as a kid.
I mean yeah, they can remember facts, but they seem to block what it felt like. And not recall a lot of other things as well.
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Date: 2009-07-04 11:41 pm (UTC)That whole blocking what it felt like to be a kid thing is one thing about adults I will never understand. And it's a big reason why I don't think of myself as an adult. I think of myself as a physically mature child.