It's funny, people claim to care so much about kids, but once today's batch of kids (born 1989-2007) grow up, people will move on to caring about the next generation (2007-2025 or whatever).
While I believe in the innocence of children, I also believe that to a mother a 25 year old child is just as precious as a baby.
What also doesn't make sense is the innocence of children often doesn't include teens and young adults, who in a way are children too (your brain doesn't stop developing until you're 25).
I love kids, but it doesn't make sense to me that we should care less about them once they grow up. To a mother or father, a child dead at 25 is just as sad as a child dead at 10.
2007-04-21 12:33:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Because when they grow up, they aren't kids anymore.
2007-04-21 12:36:59 · answer #1 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Obviously a parent will always care about their own children.
As long as I breathe, I will do whatever I need to in an effort to protect her.
But I love kids of all ages.
The infants are just tiny playthings. It's okay when they pee on you and spit up on you. They don't know how to control that yet. But if your 23-year-old peed on me then I'll admit it, there is going to be a problem.
Toddlers are just so excited about learning anything you are willing to teach them.
Adolescents just need a lot of love and they are fantastic. They will still trust you to have the answers.
Teens are trying to figure everything out by themselves, as they should. But they take some patience on your part. They are moving from family based to friends.
After that, they are trying to cut all the ties that hold them back, and once again, that is just as it should be.
Once they reach this stage, you have to let them go and grow. Otherwise you will be denying them the opportunity to grow into fully developed adults. Of course you are still there in the wings. But the focus has moved from you to them. Now they are moving from their friends to their own new family group.
It's not really that anybody cares less about them, but more of a natural cycle of learning and growing.
Then they start the next generation and you have to start over again. Only the second time around you know more of what is important. That's why grandparents are always better to their grandchildren than they were to their own children. The old folks are still learning and growing after all.
2007-04-21 12:50:19 · answer #2 · answered by Eveready 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 02:58:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My kid's are 23 and 24 and they will tell you that I love them every bit as much as the day they were born. My oldest still lives at home and I'm in no hurry for him to move out. Whenever he is ready. I hope he stays until he married. My daughters husband is in the navy and his ship is out and she has been here for 6 months. No hurry for her to go either. I myself never understood mothers who couldn't wait for their kids to go to school or move away, but I do seem to be the exception to the rule.
2007-04-21 12:55:41 · answer #4 · answered by BERT 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My mother says that I'll always be her baby, but to the world at large, I'm an adult now. I should be able to take care of myself.
2007-04-21 12:40:40 · answer #5 · answered by gaelic_girl 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Once a person reaches a certain age, they're expected to take care of themself.
A child is powerless to the evil ways of the world and incapable of protecting themself from danger and sustaining their own life.
It's sad when they get let down.
2007-04-21 12:37:02 · answer #6 · answered by RING GIRL II 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where did all this come from? I know many mothers who care about their kids until the day they die.I think you assume too much and aren't judging fairly
2007-04-21 12:39:28 · answer #7 · answered by Taylor29 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Geesh, I will care more about my kids when they are grown up and have moved the #@*& out of my house!!!!!! :)_ :)_ (LOL)
2007-04-21 12:40:01 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i couldn't agree with you more...
2007-04-21 12:39:48 · answer #9 · answered by psst.... its me 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
cuz they learn more
2007-04-21 12:36:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋