Posted by fleeting flutterby on January 8, 2009, at 14:10:56
Not sure if anyone believes this saying... but I think it's a load of cr##!!:
>> "Kids get over things better than adults, they are resilient".<<
argh-- doesn't that just make your blood boil!! argh!!!!!
If kids were so resilient... therapist's wouldn't be out there in huge numbers, trying to help adults that had less than favorable childhoods.(just because kids don't show the trauma immediately after-- adults think they aren't hurt by it)
resilient- my foot!!!!
kids are fragile, they are molded by their environment and their earliest relationships-- ie-- parents and siblings. They are helpless and dependent..... they also have hard working memories.
I don't think kids "get over" upsets-- they just stuff it away until they get older-- then --- *boom*-- like an a-bomb, it leaves victims in it's wake.
please-- please-- I wish people would understand that kids ARE NOT resilient. I wish people would quit saying such lies... such ignorant lies......
I wish kids to be treated like the precious treasures that they are, with kindness, compassion and love-- with the understanding that they are learning from situations.
this is something that has been stewing in me for quite some time.... now-(with the help from my T.) it was time for me to get it out.... hope you all don't mind.
flutterby-mandy
poster:fleeting flutterby
thread:872772
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