Children/teens aren’t allowed to be sad or in a bad mood because they can get yelled at for it and ridiculed and told to ‘change your attitude or I will for you’, while adults who are sad or in a bad mood, are allowed to yell at and take their frustration out on the kids. Adult privilege huh?
And when the adult is in a bad mood, it’s the kids job to step on eggshells in order to keep them from not exploding, and when they do, it’s on them.
And when the child is in the bad mood, it’s their job to try to hide it, and when they break apart trying to, it’s on them.
What extra sucks about this is that adults literally have more experience, context, perspective, and brain development to help them manage emotions. Adults who do this are shit. We are the adults, we should not be expecting kids who are still developing and learning about the world and trying to figure out their place in it to be the ones who are emotionally mature.
People who treat adulthood like a power trip are honestly shit and should not have authority over kids.
Yeah! It’s because when young people have negative emotions they are seen as invalid and unreasonale because there’s c l e a r l y no way that a child could be going through something as bad as what an adult could be going through. And hey! Children may not be experiencing adult levels of stress, but that’s beciase they’re not adults, and they literally aren’t experienced and developed enough to handle that! What is bad for children may not be the same as what’s bad for adults, but it’s still the worst things the children have experienced! The kids are alright.
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