A child is a unique and peculiar phase of human nature. It's a phase that has its peculiarities and as such, it comes with its character and attitude. Being a child is a blessing but not without certain aspects of challenges.
Being a child is not in the number of years lived. Being a child is a phase. Some of us stay in that phase all our lives. Meanwhile, some of us leave that phase even before the law declares us adults.
Here, we will be looking at some major differences between a child and an adult and the implications that come with the differences. The differences we will be is not about age but about a phase revealed by behaviour.
1. When a child is hungry, the child would cry and most times, it's the caregiver that would have to figure out that it is hungry that's making the child cry.
Adults shouldn't cry when they are hungry. Any adult who cries when hungry is not termed an adult. Such a person can be best referred to as a child.
2. When the caregiver figures that the child is hungry and the caregiver made food, the caregiver will most of the time force the child to eat before the child would eat. Most times, the caregiver would beat the child for the child to eat.
An adult shouldn't be forced to eat food. Any adult that requires force or persuasion or cajoling or petting to eat food shouldn't be termed as an adult. Such a person can also be best referred to as a child.
3. Most of the time, children eat because it's sweet.
An adult should eat because it's beneficial to the body. It doesn't matter whether it's bitter or not, as long as the body needs it, it should be taken without pressure. Any adult that still eats because it's sweet and hardly eats because it's bitter even when it's beneficial to the body, shouldn't be termed as an adult and such a person should be referred to as a child.
4. The Bible in 1 Corinthians 13:11 says, When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became of age, I put away childish things.
This depicts that, a child speaks before seeking to understand and before thinking.
An adult, on the other hand, Thinks, Understands before Speaking. Anyone who is said to speak without thought can be termed to be a child.
5. Children are these set of humans who requires a pet or who requires to be persuaded or who requires cajoling and also promises before they can get something done.
An adult knows what should be done and how important to do what should be done and also the right time to do it and they just get done whatever that's to be done without the extra drama.
6. Children are naturally dramatic. The more mature we get, the lesser the drama we display. This must be the reason why they say "it's not that we get more patient as we grow older, we just become tired of the unnecessary and pointless drama.
Anyone who still likes drama is still a child, it doesn't matter how old we are.
7. A child mostly knows only how to scatter things abroad. They hardly know how to arrange things in order. In their minds, they may feel they are arranging but in the real sense, they are only scattering.
An adult, on the other hand, is someone who had designated every item to its place and so, they keep things orderly for the most part. Any person who scatters things is still a child, it doesn't matter how old the person is. If any of your relationships that you still want, matter, as a result of you being the direct course, you are not there yet.
8. Everything for a child is an item of play, this is why they are hardly given something of worth.
An adult knows the importance of things and value and respect everything they have. Any person who plays with important things is still a child, sad, but it's true. Even the Bible in Matthew 7:6, NIV: says "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."
Do you joke about everything or do you still joke about everything? Are you someone who always says, I was only joking? It was just a joke or it's just Cruise. The truth is, only children joke like that, not adults. And if you still joke like that with important things, expect to have a child's reward.
When it was time for Jacob to die and he called his sons to admonish them, some people say, he caused some and he blessed some. The truth is, he only admonished them. He told them what their future will be like as a result of the kind of life he saw them live. Look at what he said to his first son in Genesis 49:3,4.
He said, (3) Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: (4) Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
When we behave like children, we should expect people to treat us like children. People hardly take children seriously, that is because I don't want to outrightly say people don't take children seriously.
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