Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.
When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.
Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.
Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.
Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.