When did you learn that "adults are not always right"?
By maezee
@maezee (41985)
United States
March 9, 2009 5:08pm CST
A common misperception that most children have is that parents (and adults in general) are always right and never make mistakes. As we grow older, though, we learn that this isn't the case, and that adults are just like everyone else - imperfect, and sometimes just flat-out wrong.
Why do you think a lot of children (and even adolescents) believe this about parents and adults? Does society pressure us, as children, into thinking that authority figures (adults) are always correct?
My question for you all (in addition to the ones above), is: when did YOU personally learn this lesson? At what age, and in what situation?
1 response
@okkidokitokki (1736)
• United States
9 Mar 09
I learned in kindergarden. When my parents got divorced. What they did was right but how they did it was wrong. They fought in front of us kids and used us against each other.
I think that children want to belive that their parents are always right because they are all we have when we are young.
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