Children and adults

Children and adults

Question # 1 When does your body stop growing?

For centuries, skeletal development has been a measure of maturity.  Wisdom teeth typically emerge between 17 and 21.  The carpals of the hand are fully developed at 13 or 14. Other bones range from 15 to 18.  The final bone in the body to mature - the collarbone - does so between 25 and 35.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/when-are-you-really-an-adult/422487/

Question # 2 When does your brain stop growing?

At about age 22 or 23, the brain is pretty much done developing.

Logical reasoning and planning are at adult levels of maturity by age 16 or so. What takes a little longer to develop are the connections between areas like the prefrontal cortex, that regulate thinking, and the limbic system, where emotions largely stem from. Until those connections are fully established, people tend to be less able to control their impulses. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/when-are-you-really-an-adult/422487/

Question # 3 How long time can you concentrate?

Kids’ concentration span is quite short. Therefore, you need to cut a learning session into shorter fragments.

https://www.martialtribes.com/professionals-en/students/differences-teaching-kids-adults/

The thing that sets children apart from adults their enormous capacity for joy.

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/01/joy-the-subject-schools-lack/384800/

Question # 4 How selfishly do you think?

When a child is born, he or she is in a state of narcissism. The egocentricity of the child is strong.

What is outside the child's body is real only in terms of the child's needs for, for example, food, warmth, satisfaction and security.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2451158545 Page 35.

When a child reaches the age of 8.5 to 10 years, the idea of love is, for the first time in the child's life, transformed from being loved into loving.

For the first time, the child's thinks of giving something to his or her mother or father, for example a drawing. Needs of others become as important, or even more important, than the child's own needs. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2451158545 Page 37.

As we get older, we gradually learn to see the world from a different perspective.

http://uxkids.com/blog/5-key-difference-between-kids-and-adults/

The transition into adult roles is taking longer and longer. There are now, for many people, several years when they are free of their parents, out of school, but not tied to spouses or children.

Being a spouse or a parent seem to become less valued as necessary gateways to adulthood. Many young people want to establish careers, to get married, to have kids. Or some combination thereof.

They just don’t see them as the defining traits of adulthood.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/when-are-you-really-an-adult/422487/

Question # 5 How openly and directly do you communicate?

Children don't pretend they're enjoying a meeting when they really want to get up and run around.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1219035862 Page 95.

It was a child who pointed out that the emperor's new clothes were, in fact, no clothes at all.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1219035862 Page 88.

Kids will let you know directly how much they like an exercise or how much they don’t like it.

https://www.martialtribes.com/professionals-en/students/differences-teaching-kids-adults/

By listening to a child, you can learn about what the child’s parents think.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-differences-between-a-child%E2%80%99s-and-an-adults-behaviors/answer/Gwen-Sawchuk

Question # 6

How creatively do you think?

Children have the benefit of not knowing what is not possible.

http://www.destination-innovation.com/articles/why-are-children-so-much-more-creative-than-adults/

Younger leaders are constantly looking for innovative ways to accomplish work more efficiently and with higher quality.

They welcome change and are more willing to challenge the status quo than older leaders are.

https://hbr.org/2015/09/what-younger-managers-should-know-about-how-theyre-perceived