This especially irritates me when people say it about kids.
I’ve learned in the past 4 years that many adults don’t actually teach their kids shit about being a human being. What adults see as “common knowledge” they just expect their kids to know, then punish the kid when they don’t.
It leads to a lot of mental and emotional distress for child and parent, and by extension teachers or any other adult responsible for the child.
Kids need a lot of attention to develop and grow and be the best they can be, and I don’t understand why that’s such a hard concept. You want your kid to verbally tell you what’s wrong, you have to give him the language tools to express themselves.
You want your kid to clean up after themselves, teach them how to fold clothes, where to put them, how to sort clean from dirty.
Kids don’t know how to do these things inherently.
This especially
irritates me when people
say it about kids.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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The biggest change of viewpoint I ever went through during psych training was when I said “but what if they’re doing it for attention?” and my supervisor was like “what’s wrong with needing attention?” And I realised I didn’t have an answer.
Crying for help is not something people do if they don’t need help. If you’re “seeking attention” it’s because you’re lonely, or scared or not okay. You need support and human connection. So why is society’s response to that scenario to withhold it!!?
It’s like society is so paranoid about the “boy who cried wolf” we want to withhold support to anyone who might be anything other than “on the verge of an urgent emergency.” But the way to effectively STOP someone from an emergency situation is early intervention!
And the sign that some early intervention is needed is usually, you guessed it, when people start trying to gain support and care from loved ones / the people in their lives.
It’s not only valid to ask for help when the distress is a 10/10 emergency.
ALT
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