Being an adult is harder than being a kid. Not because you have to pay taxes and bills and budget your money and such... well, probably partly because of that, but I wouldn't know because I don't have to do that stuff yet.
But the real reason is this: kids (well, kids who are, say, 10 and older) know what they should be doing. Adults say to kids, here's what you should do and here's what you shouldn't do. Sometimes the kids listen and sometimes they don't, but either way, they know exactly what's expected of them, and they know they're risking punishment by doing something wrong.
No one is there to tell adults (and I suppose I'm talking more specifically about parents or people like me, acting in loco parentis) what the right or wrong decision is. In fact, most of the time, there are multiple right decisions and multiple wrong decisions, and a few neutral ones. It's not, "should I do my homework or not," it's, "did I come off too harsh? Should I have been harsher? Is there something I should have said that I didn't say? Did I make the right choice? Was there a better way to do this?"
When you're a kid, you assume adults just know what they're doing. But the secret is, WE HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA. And even if we do, other adults are going to have different opinions from ours. If kids/teenagers knew this secret, there would be complete and utter chaos. Luckily, they don't, unless they're reading this blog. In which case... ha ha! I'm kidding, of course! We know exactly what we're doing... they give us a handbook actually...
Ugh. I wish I had a handbook. And NOT the Organization X Handbook because that thing is worthless.
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