Posted on 03/20/2019 12:35:25 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
And by-the-way...now that I will be turning 72 in a couple of weeks or so, I have a son on his own, a Grandson on the way, and my wife and I are enjoying our “childhood” with our hobbies and interests. Can you say “Old Arn”?
I know some who are headed towards 40 and show no signs of progress.
I have a niece that is 31 going on 15. Unfortunately she recently gave birth to the third generation of the same.
Brain change is like climate change.
It never stops.
That doesn’t mean we should count people as children for upwards of half their lives.
Jeesh!
The person I named my son for left the New Jersey colony in 1760 at the age of 18 to make his way as a fur trader in in the Northwest Territory’s and after an amazing adventure (which included escaping a massacre as part of Pontiac’s Uprising) ultimately ended up a wealthy man in the trade.
How times have changed...
Yep - how'd that work out for him?
You have made some great valid points.
God made me, and to prove his sense of humour, I’m 43 and not an adult yet. At least that’s what people keep telling me.
I wish. But it seems they want it lower to 16.
“...Michael Moore got elected to public office at age 18.
....
?????
When did this happen?
We are talking about the same Michael Moore?
Fat loud mouth socialist morn...right?
Some never do.
Tell that to Joan of Arc, Belisarius, Alexander the Great, Don Juan of Austria, etc.
Maybe this is because a significant number of parents place primary focus on “protecting the child” by coddling, removing consequences, and helicopter parenting, as opposed to focusing on rearing a future adult. I enjoyed rearing my kids, but I never forgot the ultimate goal was for them to grow into independent, functional adults.
“So Democrats want 16 year olds to vote?”
There’s no draft now, so the argument that 18-year-olds should be able to vote because they can be called up to the armed forces is moot (and why did that allow 18-year-old girls to vote - they couldn’t have been drafted).
We don’t allow people to buy booze or tobacco under the age of 21...because they are not yet adults, yet we allow them to help determine the course of our nation? WTF, over!?
and I guess the rest is history!
thanks didn’t know that!
The brain and body are likely fully mature a decade earlier than that.
However, our brains are often programmed and filled with bad data, conflicting information and poorly formed ideologies and we think and act accordingly.
Consider the many children who are raised by only one parent, who is often absent working to support the broken family.
These children lack the foundational understanding of themselves and about how men and women interact with each other and the world that children from an intact family see and experience every day of their lives.
How many years does it take for a young, but physically mature 20 something to work through this arrested or stunted development, to work through the bad and conflicting data programmed into them from birth to acquire a “mature mind”?
Given our times nowadays, early 30s sounds about right. Otoh, some never escape mom’s basement in their minds.
I may be an adult, but I refuse to grow up.
I think the founding Fathers were pretty close.
Most of us don’t grow up until about 32.
You wake up, look in the mirror and see your Father.
You can do great things prior to that, with guidance and discipline, but one day you get the self wake up call.
Yes, but at 50, you start counting backwards developmentally.
51 is 49, 52 is 48... Then they give you a bib and a nappy.
You eventually go back to yer binky
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