Why don't adults cry for physical pain while children do it automatically?

Question

When tears stop, and what makes them stop?

Answer 1

sometimes adults cry for physical pain also

children do it because they need immediate attention, and that is their default method of getting it

Answer 2

Children cry to alert others that they're in pain - it's an evolutionary thing. There are two reasons why adults don't do this.

1. Because by the time we reach adulthood, we're more immune to pain.

2. Because as children we're taught that the grown-up approach to pain is not to cry, so adults feel more embarrassed about crying.

Answer 3

Fear works close to the boundaries of not understanding. Children cry when they fear something, and pain is still not a fully developed understanding in children. It's like handling currency or knowing right from wrong.

There is also the point that children are less self sufficient too. In infancy a child cries to get the attention needed. The older you grow the more self sufficient you become. It's all about learning and gaining the abilities to do things for yourself.

Answer 4

I wouldn't say that adults never cry because of physical pain. I did at 38 after breaking my foot, and I saw many people in tears when injured.

It's true that this happens to adults only when pain is really excruciating, while children cry very easily.

In my opinion it's something that changes in our teens, we learn how to deal with pain and we don't want to look weak.

Answer 5

Pain is your body's way of letting you know that you are being injured. Small children are not capable of determining the seriousness of the situation on their own and so need an adult to come and make sure they are OK. Therefore, they cry. Adults are able to decide whether their injuries need first aid, medical attention, a band-aid, or whatever, and so don't need to cry every time we stub our toe, fall down, or burn ourselves cooking. A small child who has hurt themselves will usually stop crying (if it is not a serious injury) the second an adult comes over and lets them know that it's OK.

Answer 6

Who told you that Adult do not cry? Some of us cry openly why others cry secretly. Some of us endure pains especially in the public and that is what made us to be an adult.

Answer 7

children r yet to be fed with suppresions and repressions. the adult conditioning slowly rapes through the intelligence , the child holds. it is taught to be other self, disguised in the form of so called social education. .................... how can body lie? and the mind never can ever imbibe truth ! the consious feels the pain the body conveys and there is little conditioning ie less of mind, by mind is meant thinking , planning about future therefore when no pain automatically the consius bliss...!

Answer 8

Because adults are ashame of the fact that another person or person's will laugh at them an a child will cary because they have not built up that shmae of a person or person's laughing at them.

Answer 9

Adults hide pains in public,but expresses it in private,kids are outspoken. That is why you find more adults with hypertension

Answer 10

well adult can take the physical pain because as u are adult people expt that frm an adult