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<blockquote data-quote="Alice" data-source="post: 493443" data-attributes="member: 3873"><p>Let's take this a little bit of a different direction. </p><p></p><p>Some children are expected to be their parent's/caretaker's emotional support...even at a very young age. Some very young children are expected to take care of younger siblings. My daughter has had, and has, children in her 3rd grade class that their mother's and father's relied upon to make certain the siblings got to school. And, some of these children are used as their mother's and father's confessors...those poor kids are expected to feel badly for them and support them when mama's boyfriend or daddy's girlfriend does them wrong...adult type stuff that kids should not be made a part of!</p><p></p><p>Too much grown up stuff is expected of little kids...they are expected to think and behave like adults sometimes, then treated like children others. No, of course not every child, but all children have these miniature caretaker supporters as peers. No wonder kids get emotionally confused.</p><p></p><p>I have a feeling that this is not something new...it's just becoming more known about. </p><p></p><p>Crowder, you said something about how things were so much different when you were going to school. In last Sunday's Fort Worth Star Telegram, there was an entire page devoted to someone that I grew up with...went to school with. Didn't care for him then, and the article doesn't change my mind.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=11E4CD7DD0936880&p_docnum=1" target="_blank">http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Arc ... p_docnum=1</a></p><p></p><p>Dysfunctional families were around then, but if your folks were like mine, it was not discussed in front of the children. I can remember many times my mother and father working behind the scenes trying to help out a child in one way or the other...but we never knew the circumstances or the name of the child, or the child's family, or what was being done...and we knew better than to ask. Now, children are expected to take over adult burdens and are told to keep it quiet...and adults trying to help are told to mind their own business.</p><p></p><p>Sad, sad commentary.</p><p></p><p>Alice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alice, post: 493443, member: 3873"] Let's take this a little bit of a different direction. Some children are expected to be their parent's/caretaker's emotional support...even at a very young age. Some very young children are expected to take care of younger siblings. My daughter has had, and has, children in her 3rd grade class that their mother's and father's relied upon to make certain the siblings got to school. And, some of these children are used as their mother's and father's confessors...those poor kids are expected to feel badly for them and support them when mama's boyfriend or daddy's girlfriend does them wrong...adult type stuff that kids should not be made a part of! Too much grown up stuff is expected of little kids...they are expected to think and behave like adults sometimes, then treated like children others. No, of course not every child, but all children have these miniature caretaker supporters as peers. No wonder kids get emotionally confused. I have a feeling that this is not something new...it's just becoming more known about. Crowder, you said something about how things were so much different when you were going to school. In last Sunday's Fort Worth Star Telegram, there was an entire page devoted to someone that I grew up with...went to school with. Didn't care for him then, and the article doesn't change my mind. [url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=11E4CD7DD0936880&p_docnum=1]http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Arc ... p_docnum=1[/url] Dysfunctional families were around then, but if your folks were like mine, it was not discussed in front of the children. I can remember many times my mother and father working behind the scenes trying to help out a child in one way or the other...but we never knew the circumstances or the name of the child, or the child's family, or what was being done...and we knew better than to ask. Now, children are expected to take over adult burdens and are told to keep it quiet...and adults trying to help are told to mind their own business. Sad, sad commentary. Alice [/QUOTE]
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