h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Quacks

Now that's slightly more worrying.

*stands by with a paddling pool in case symptoms worsen.*

he's quacked

Squadroon vs. Squadroon= they rubbed each other out

"All I know is I've given my 4 and 5 year old their first taste of resentment when they had to eat oatmeal for breakfast and I plopped down next to them with chocolate pudding and a dr. pepper. Wahahaha I told 'em that as an adult, eating what I want whenever the h*ll I want is one of the few solaces I get. The s weren't impressed, needless to say."

Nice of you. I used to use cold and ...
While the child masticated Gerber's Baby Mush mixed with A*P*P*L*E*S*S*A*U*C*E* and then spit half of it on the bib, half of it on her hand to rub in her hair and half of it on the nearest wall...


I was reminded of this experience the other day when both me and the now 13-year-old sprout were pointing out the bits of food that Uvula had dribbled onto her glasses, which hang about her chest unfolded (watch it, now!) on a brightly coloured chain when they aren't being used to blind her.

What do you mean by childish? Do you mean having fun? Why should that be the domain of children?

Actually, no, that wasn't my original intent. But the only respondents I got to the thread were the Three Ronnies.

I was wondering why, with enough time under their belts and supposedly some idea of how the world works, that children over twenty-two persist in acting like they've never been taught to follow a few simple rules:

1. The store is not open for your convenience. Other people come there, too.
2. The road was not paved for your convenience. Other people drive there, too.
3. Your children were not born to you because you were the best candidate for the job. You get to prove that with the results. If there are no visible results, then you are not visibly a parent.
4. Jesus does not love you because you are White, Female and a Texan. He loves you in spite of that.
5. If you make a promise, keep it. If you have no intention of keeping it, keep your mouth shut.
6. Theft is theft is theft is theft.
7. If you didn't like something your mother did to you as a child, remember that, and then keep your eyes out for how you may be driving your own children bugf**k.
8. "Do as I say, not as I do" is cheating and lying. You don't want your child to do it, you don't do it.
9. Callouses are grown, not born.
10. Children are allowed to make mistakes and so should you be. Be honest with each other and if you are not happy, at least you can compare bruises.

I'm intrigued. I'd call all that rudeness/stupidity, rather than childishness. I wouldn't say that any child does any of that naturally - it seems learned behaviour.

The only one that I think could make it, is number 2. Young children do seem to move forward full steam ahead assuming that people will get out of *their* way.

I think that I'm child*like* because I enjoy simple pleasures like blowing raspberries on stomachs and other things that I can't describe in words (need sound effects!). And I have fun from life, and live in the present a lot.

Yes, well, the rude/stupid will insult a youngster by saying, "Behave, stop being so childish." That's like saying to a radish, "Stop being so Radish!"

For some strange reason, many of us seem to have had more fun with our second childhood, once we got away from the adolts.

I've got all the stuff they would never let me have as a kid.
You should see my Hot Wheels collection!

I've been buying my son all the great tracks that we had when we were kids! Luckily he likes them too, although he can never be bothered to fit them together, so I get to do that. Brrmmm...

>> ...other things that I can't describe in words (need sound effects). <<

Interesting insight.

I am now wondering if acoustic space and its relationship to 'personal space' is something that evolves with age.
*thinking out loud*
I have observed that children respond to most new sounds and quickly learn to associate them with subsequent pleasures or pains. They learn to subliminate the most familiar and ignore the unwanted.

By the time we are adults we have learned to customise our 'audio space' whenever possible and learned to endure the noise we can't block out.

But at that age when we experience our greatest concerns about our identity and individuality, teenagers and young adults frequently immerse themselves totally in loud (painfully loud) acoustic spaces.

This requires more thought...

~jwf~

Going back a bit……

If we’ve hijacked your thread.

I agree with Mina, the list you mentioned a few posts ago has more to do with manners and peoples attitudes. Its not childish behavior, but behavior that has been learnt.

It's is childish behaviour though - it's doing things the way you want them without thought of other people. Children do this, mainly because they're innocent. Adult do this... mostly because they're pig ignorant

Again, is it childish behaviour, or adultish behaviour that the children are immitating, the same way children learn everything else?
which in turn leads to the nex generation ending up the same. QED.

Oh well, we disagree. Children don't tend to tell other people to do things while they do the opposite. They want everyone to be doing the same thing most of the time!

I don't think it's possible to hijack a thread. Don't worry about it.


http://www.sentex.net/~nexus23/naa_js.html

I do think it is "childish" for adolts to be so exclusionary and mean.

As a possible Asperger's, I have always had trouble understanding why people, adolts and their miniatures, say one thing and do another.
Fr'instance, when I was working as a janitor, I was told to clean things. So I did. Then I was told, "Well, not that. Don't worry about that."
"Well, it's dirty," I said.
"Well, don't worry about it. Nobody else does."
"Nobody else is the janitor."
"Don't bother me. Just do what you're told."

The ability of children to mimic their parents is part of the original question. At some point one would think that experience would indicate where mum and dud were wrong.
Unless it were a societal thing, in which case 30,000,000 idiots can't be wrong. Just look at football. Which I can't.

I can understand how someone can live in their own little world. I do it. And much of what I do is incomprehensible. I was showing my slide rule collection to a former engineer last night at bible study. He asked, "Why do you have these when you don't know how to use them?"
I said, "Because I like the way they look."
Blew his mind.
But I can also understand why a decision must be made, as I have had to, to soften the blow when your little world (I visualize it as a bubble) encounters other people's. If you don't like intrusion and conflict, isn't it possible that others don't, too?
Of course, this can also lead to "Minding your own business" to the point that egregious abuses are occurring (sp?) right next door to you and you ignore it out of self-preservation or just plain ignorance.

My day is divided between activity and inactivity, trying to figure out what to say and when to say it and when to just say nothing.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it hard to stomach people who wear their attitudes and air them, too. Partly because I would like to, too, but I can't remember all the unwritten rules of social congress.
So I bitch about them online...

"I have always had trouble understanding why people, adolts and their miniatures, say one thing and do another"

As far as I can see it people usually want to do what is easy while everyone else does what is right.

How come when Children wet themselves whilst in MFI the staff are very understanding and helpful meanwhile when I wet myself in MFI they phone the police??? All I ask is a bit of fairness......... Well ok then I grant you the child isnt usually stood on the Kitchen units shouting "i'm a fireman", but I still have a point surely

tonsil has coined a new word!

Gaze upon his freshly minted:

>> adolts <<

Love it! And I intend to use it.
I may never spell adolts any other way ever again.

~jwf~

Why is it that older children seem to expect their parents to act with decorum and not run around being an aeroplane?

Do they? Oh dear. How can I stunt J's age when he gets to about 10?