Adultismus: We discriminate against children

Mittlerweile sees the facets of adulthood in general: if a child has a problem and it is not so: “It is not so schlimm!” If children want that Willen be hugged and cuddled. If the power over the «Keine Widerrede» or «Weil ich es dir sage» sprochen was.

Or if you are Eltern, then it is ideal to focus everything on woolen clothing, your child can no longer get out of the augen-lassen and no longer separate. Check every one at night, in every game dazwischenfunken. This is the power that is in the Puderzucker variant.

Adulthood is omnipresent: in restaurants, in restaurants and in shops, where children often have no patience anymore, when they are in conversation with small adults – still an unuffällig. Or in the architectural architecture of houses and buildings: thus small children’s activities get a treppengeländer zu grifen – obwohl geraad es am häufigsten beuchten.

The Auswirkungen can become more serious. «Bei manchen (Kindern) führt Adultismus zur Unsicherheit en Selbstentwertung, in others zur Frustration und Widerstand. Who are other resigned people, or the Schmerz and Schwächere weiter, schreiben der Sozialwissenschafter Manfred Liebel und der Kinderrechtsbeauftragte Philip Meade in his book «Adultismus: Die Macht der Erwachsenen über die Kinder». If there is maturity in all Gesellschaften quickly, then this is a problem that will be solved.

Höchste Zeit also, when the problem occurs. And, as so often, it can be a self-realization. If I am right: I am busy with my kind, where Boundaries legitimate or schlicht notorious sin is – and want to deal with me like that, who is there with a few things that can not work.