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Adults are quick to write off that kids are not part of the "real world": e.g. "When you graduate school and enter the real world, (insert something about respo
by chiefofgxbxl 11y ago
Adults are quick to write off that kids are not part of the "real world": e.g. "When you graduate school and enter the real world, (insert something about responsibilities or work)."
I'm sure it is a combination of school, parenting, and distracting technology (iPads given to 5 year olds), among other factors, that marginalize the youth into a different world in which adults cannot interact with them, and the prospect of having a meaningful discussion with a young person is out the window.
- fao_ 11y agoThere is also the point that the fact that the adults are writing off the children means that they are less likely to start/join a meaningful discussion with them. I have had the joy of meeting and having meaningful and deep (Mostly philosophical) conversations with many young people (Of the age ranges of 6 -> 16), and I haven't found them to be in a 'different world' at all. Perhaps it is lack of control of environments, and lack of adults that treat them like actual people, that produces children that are marginalized and 'in a different world'?