Yesterday I was commenting on Twitter with another mother that my son, despite not having even 11 years, one day I went to where he was with his friends whispered "mom you're embarrassing me."
This has not caused me any trauma (at least evident), and also at home we have good communication and these things we banal later and laugh at them ... but it makes us think.
As it also gives to think that kids of mine age have dinner one day a week, but not in someone's house, but in a bar, and they spend their afternoons in walking backpack on their back and smartphone in hand.
Well, I am not so panoli to believe that they do something wrong by walking, but the bar and the mobile dislodge me. With the mother of a friend we talk and say "how happy are ours exploring mountain roads and venturing with bikes." If it’s not that we have them locked up, but enjoy your freedom, more happens through childhood activities, you know, play freely, etc.
Well, sometimes they also get into someone's house where there is no adult presence and watch video games that I wouldn't authorize here, but my responsibility there is diffuse. If you come here, you know that you will not be able to put them on our console, but there are other possibilities, and also my snacks are not bad at all.
I know that childhood is the time to experiment, to learn by playing, to develop social skills that will be perfected later, to have protection and the unconditional love of adults ...
And at a stroke we almost loaded it: Among our demands, early schooling, external stimuli to the family that we neither analyze nor are harmless, and the pressure of the environment and society, we favor little people who biologically have an age although behaviorally they seem to have another. As a button shows: the daughter of an acquaintance recently slipped away from the end-of-stage party - Primary / 12 and 13 years old - because her friends celebrated with a bottle.
Another thing is that according to studies (which I will comment on another time) puberty seems to be getting ahead, that is to say from the biological point of view if an early development has been contrasted. This is also complicated because the boy or girl has to deal with an older body in a small psyche, but as I tell you my topic of reflection today is another.
In addition adults are contradiction (generalize huh? Do not bother with me please) in its purest form. We bought them an expensive smartphone with 10 years - to be broken in a few weeks -, but we have them hyper protected by watching their movements with magnifying glass since leaving class. They were?
And if I have to think that children seem to be "advanced" (as we might say vulgarly), it is even more surprising that adolescence lasts over time. What is the point of pretending that our child “burns stages” and grows up soon, if he is 25 years old and behaves like a capricious and consumerist teenager? Here is something that does not fit me.
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