At what age did you become an adult?

Question

How old were you when you set aside childish things?

The source of the expression was requested, Paul of Tarsus' first letter to the school at Corinth:

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

Answer 1

7 but hey every1 has bad stuff in there life now i'm experiencing what being a child is all about through my beautiful kids.
i dont ever want to grow up.
i am a grown up, i can be grown up but i will never put away my childish things!
what poem is that from?
i need to get a copy for my wall! seriously

Answer 2

The actual age a person becomes an adult is 18. You are legal age to decide what happens in your own life but not until you reach 21 are you allowed to drink legally.

I have never and will never put away childish things. I for one believe that acting childish is far worse than giving up on a memory of your childhood. Although, it may not have great, it was still your childhood. Remember this, just because you become an adult doesn't mean you have to stop being a child altogether. It will never happen that way. When a man and woman get married, they are told to put away childish things, right? Well, when you have children what happens? You end up having all kinds of childish things now in your home.

Answer 3

18

Answer 4

30

Answer 5

When I was 19 my mom died... It took the last of my childhood out of me. Later that year, I gave birth to my son and ever since then I get to grow up with him. So I guess I became an adult at 19 in two different ways. But in the same year, I lost my inner child and then got it back. I hope I answered what you were really asking.

I wanted to add to my answer:
11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Apparently we are all still children in the eyes of the Lord because we haven't seen face to face. We only know in part although we are already fully known.
So I guess the answer to your question... for everyone maybe... is: we become adults when we can look back and see that we talked like children, thought like children and reasoned like chilren in the past.

Answer 6

22

Answer 7

I moved out on my own at 16 and had a job from the time I was 13.

I have yet to set aside all the childish things though. It keeps me young at heart.

Answer 8

30

Answer 9

I may have set aside some childish things, but not all childish things-like dreams, and climbing trees, and things like that. I may be an adult, but I refuse to be a grown-up!

Einstein said it best: "People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."

C.S. Lewis did a good job, too. "Of course, it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up."

Answer 10

Legally at 18 but i'll always be a child at heart. I long for the days when I believed that everyone had some good in them and a bad day could be fixed with some cookies and a glass of milk.