So I’m babysitting my brother’s kids. We were eating lunch and talking like usual. We began talking about silly things and just making fun of each other. My niece told me something and I said “whatever little girl!” She immediately got mad at me telling me that she’s not a little girl she’s ten and that she’s almost a teenager. It was kind of weird though because she’s barely ten years old.
I know that this isn’t uncommon since I even said that to my older sisters. She started saying how she was about to be a teenager in a few years. I began thinking about it a bit more, I mean she is getting older and of course everyone grows. I just don’t like that fact that I’m getting old.
I’ve seen them grow up fast and I’ve heard them say that they want to grow up already. What!? Why do these little girls want to grow up already? I’m not old I mean I’m just sixteen but life isn’t getting any easier. I wish I was a little kid again, because life was so much easier then. I understand why they want to grow up. They see me all the time with my clothes and putting makeup on I know that they like it. They even say that they want to grow up and be like me, yes, I am flattered by this but I also want them to enjoy their childhood.
You only get childhood once and when it’s gone, it’s gone.
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I think everyone always feels like what ever age they are at the time has all the maturity and knowlege possible. When I was two, I felt like I knew more than I now believe I did, just like now I probably consider myself to be more mature than I will remember myself being in ten years.
Children grow up fast period. They think they are grown when they are 5. Its just one of those things. My sister is turning 11 and she thinks she is 22.
I know how you feel. I'm sixteen too & my brother has two kids. One is turning 7 in less than a month & he's already doing the same things. We all act that way when we're younger. In fact, I agree with the post above mine. We're probably still acting that way.
Like when teenagers get in trouble for doing things like being out too late at night or not telling their parents where they are. It seems so harmless, but I know that someday I'll understand & appreciate that my parents cared enough to punish me for things I thought were nothing.
I know exactly what you mean.
I'm heading to college soon, and it makes me so sad... I will never actually be able to just head home at the end of the day to my bedroom. I will never be able to lay outside on my green frontyard ever again like I used to.
Once you get out of the house, things will never be the same -- there will be more stress, more responsibility...
I know I have a little cousin who is nine and she acts like a little women. I know that she looks up to me and is just dying to be my age, but I tell her with age comes much responisibilty. She complains about long division and writing a little essay, I told her that ain't nothing wait until that long division because Pre-Calculus or even Calculus that's when you can start complain and even then it can get harder and much more complicated. And that little essay into a three page paper.
I wish I could be a little child again too because I'm a high school junior and I graduated from high school June 2009 and I know the work doesn't get any easier from this point on. And its getting difficult already, no child needs to rush theire. They need to enjoy and appreciate every single day of there childhood because it goes so quickly. It was just the other day I was graduating from junior high school and into high school. Now im soon graduating into college.