2007-02-14 07:55:12 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
YES they do !
I got this sometime ago and want to share it....Its a few answers to what KIDS have to say about love:
"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."
Rebecca- age 8
"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."
Karl - age 5
Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."
Danny - age 7
"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."
Elaine-age 5
"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross."
Mark - age 6
Its all the small things that we have forgotten about and now adays take for granted.
2007-02-14 08:20:25 · answer #1 · answered by RR77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because love is more than emotions, and most kids are very emotional in their approach to things around them. Kids are very dramatic in how they look at those who are in their lives. When you listen to kids talking about people, you'll often hear them say they hate this or love that. They haven't learned to stop and think about something before speaking their thoughts & feelings out loud. It goes with maturity. Love is something you do, not something you feel. Feelings come and go. This week, a 13 year old will eternally love someone. Next week, they hate that person, because of something they said or did. As a person matures, they realize that people can mess up, and still be loved. Your husband can cheat, ask forgiveness, and be restored in a loving relationship. It's rare to find a kid who would think that that's possible. Love embraces more than what many kids have ever experienced. It's only through time that kids will grow to understand that there's more to love than a warm & fuzzy feeling. Again, there's the rare kid (we're talking 8-17 year old, for the sake of wondering) that understands that love is more than feeling. I've been on this site for over a year, and I've not seen much of that. So, if this is a small indication of what's out there in the "real" world, I think my observation stands. <*)))><
2007-02-14 08:06:56 · answer #2 · answered by Sandylynn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think people - adults say that because they started to think of love in a different way when they've had their own kids. Kid is no kid anymore when that kid had a kid of his own.
When we become adults we often change our understanding of love. It becomes more complicated and less recognizable. And so many people say that kids don't know what love means because kids haven't really lived the life yet to experience the true feelings of love. They think that love can only be tested by time.
2007-02-14 08:15:25 · answer #3 · answered by DREW&IRINA P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's true, sometimes what you think is love may only be a crush or infatuation with someone. Specially when your young when you like someone you automatically think your in love.As you get older you;ll see the difference, most adults don't know what real love is themselves, so how can you at a young age.When you get older and meet the person that you are going to marry, then you'll know what love is.When your willing to sacrifice your own needs and wants for that person,when your willing to share everything with them,when your willing to stick it and make it work when things get alittle rough in the relationship.When you have honesty, loyalty, trust ,and commitment just to that one person then you'll know the meaning of love. So until your ready for all that,you don't know love yet. Hope that helps
2007-02-14 08:15:09 · answer #4 · answered by glorene b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids don't know the difference between a simple crush, and love. And it's not just kids. The adults and teens can't tell the difference between love and lust.
I've never been in love, but here's what I think. I think lust is the that strong feeling that people mistake for as love, while love in a much more steadier, balanced, but longer lasting thing. You need to work at love. Lust comes strong, and burns out just as fast.
2007-02-14 08:00:25 · answer #5 · answered by KristaElizabeth 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
At 16 I fell in love at 17 I had a son and shortly after I had another son. Now as a grown woman who is married to that "teenage love" I now realize that I did not know what love was. With age comes wisdom.
2007-02-14 08:12:26 · answer #6 · answered by always wondering 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
usually a kid has not experienced life enough to know the difference between love, infatuation, lust and puppy love...and to me a kid or child is someone below the age of consent (meaing age 18)--however, there are always expections to the rule....and some kids out there have lived a lifetime in their short time here on earth
2007-02-14 08:03:47 · answer #7 · answered by sunbun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because when you are young you don't have as much life experience, and that means a LOT... only age and experience will show you what love really is...
2007-02-14 08:12:53 · answer #8 · answered by Der Bingle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't. Kids are pretty self-centered. More than half the adults have the same problem. Heck, I had that problem well into my 30s.
2007-02-14 07:57:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
because they do, because its true im 15 years old i tell my gf i love her but sometimes you wonder if what your feeling is love, its true on some lvls and on some others its not, we dont know what love is and how we use it today its like were giving it away like charity, but when you love someone you know and its not like love at first site thats wrong if u met someone then ur like i love them ur wrong, thats lust not love, love is something much deeper that takes more time to develop and parents just view our teenage mind to b not as developed and open to the world to actually know the true meaning of love
2007-02-14 07:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋