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Jan. 29, 2005 This is an article about being a kid. Something I haven't been in a very long time. Sometimes, when you are an adult for long enough, you forget what it's like to be, say, nine years old again. I'm lucky enough to have children in my life, cousins mostly, who are able to keep at that ground of "don't forget". My nine year old cousin was telling me that one of her friends did something wrong and she was accused of it. I don't know exactly what that something was, but she was very adament about not doing it. Now I know all children lie at one point or another, but she's not really a big liar, she'll fess up when she's done something wrong, and she didn't. So when she says she didn't do it, I tend to believe her. Anyway, she is telling me that one of her friends did something and she's been accused of it. Now the problem with this is, no matter how much she denies everything, this woman, her friend's mother, is screaming and yelling at her. I asked my cousin how she felt at this point, and she said "helpless". Imagine that. No matter how much you say you didn't do something, and you honestly didn't do it, no one believes you. It applies alot to daily adult life, but at least we have the ability to stand up and say "hey! Listen to me I didn't do it, so shut up." That doesn't really happen in the life of a pre-adolesent. Why is that the way of the world? Why do we instictively believe that a child is lying? I hear alot of people complaining that the new generation of teenagers and young adults and preteens are violent, drug addicted, having sex, and are generally not very nice little people. I know alot of young people, seeing as my family has basically populated a small country with our reproduction, and they are all basically good kids. I don't see a violent one, or one that I want to beat with a switch or anything. Why was it automatically assumed that she wasn't telling the truth? Perhaps sometime during the aging process we forgot what it's like to not be believed based completely on age. Perhaps we no longer remember that helpless feeling that surrounds us when we are being called liars. I think, and this is just an opinion, that we should take a little more time to investigate what is being accused before we start pointing the finger. You or I or someone else may be making an innocent person feel really, really bad about themselves. There is no reason for that. Is there? ------------ About the author L.J. Chapman: I am a mother of two kids. I run a freelance business online, called LJC Freelance Inc. I'm trying to get a novel written, but I am a mother of two. Email: snowboarderspixiegirl8@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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