Kids may demonstrate maturity (sometimes) better than adults; while adults, may see themselves as knowing-how-to-act or knowing-better, when it comes to life in general -- sometimes, they don't; and that, is ironic -- would you not agree?
Example ~
Children may act childish, because, after-all, they are children. They are not nessessarily expected to know better; because, after-all, they are not of a mature age; While -- Adults, may present themselves maturely -- after-all, that is what grownups are expected to do. However -- Children may (also) have, a very-good innate sense of appropriateness and understanding of when it cool to act silly, and what is the mature thing to do, more-so, sometimes, than the adults who are supposedly the ones for kids to emulate and look to, as role models.
As we age, the hustle and bustle of the world may help to diminish our sense of what is appropriate, mature, and sensible -- for, we may get caught-up in the rat-race, or become parents too soon or (generally) have an egotistical-side, that sometimes, gets in the way of seeing what is fair or appropriate.
We may also, project our own shortcomings onto our children -- which allows us to notice in them, our own flaws of behavior -- that is interestingly enough, a projection of our own flaws of behavior. We may scold our children, for doing the things that we do, more-so. It's funny, how things (sometimes) tend to be -- and the unfairness/double-standard, is probably noticed and acknowledged (silently) by the children who are a part of that type of double-standard; while, the parents may be trying to be adult parents, however -- they may present themselves (more-so) as being, in the shoes of egotistical children (metaphorically, speaking) -- while (ironically), the children wear the (metaphoroic) hats of mature adults.
Have you ever seen this type of interesting 'flip-flop' behavior-wise? And if so, what are your thoughts about the reversal?
