[ SECRET POST #6789 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6789 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is both funny and kind of nuts to me because... research? Don't people encounter kids on their own even enough to notice this stuff? I had younger siblings.

[dinogrrl]

I'm a single person, I keep to myself a lot, I don't want children and don't seek out interactions with them, I never even did babysitting as a teen, and I work at a veterinary clinic, so no, I'm not regularly exposed to children. I do have a younger sibling but childhood was 30+ years ago so uuuuh my memories may not be reliable on the matter.

And it still doesn't hurt to double-check what you think you know!

[(Anonymous)]

I think even people who are around kids all the time wouldn't necessarily find it easy to write a kid of a specific age. Someone could teach first grade and be around all the 6 year olds but not be sure how to write a 10 year old or a 4 year old. Do you remember exactly what your younger siblings were like when they were exactly 6, enough to write a believable 6 year old that can't be mistaken for a 10 year old?

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't recall all the exact details of what a six year old is like, but I'd know enough to realize that a 6 year old with normal development is not going to sound like a 2 year old.

[(Anonymous)]

The question was though, are memories based on "having siblings" enough to write an age-accurate child? The secret's OP used an extreme example but a 6 year old being different from a 10 year old is also an extreme example and I bet lots of people even if they have had siblings wouldn't get it quite right.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, parenting websites are legion and most of them have a section on developmental milestones.

[(Anonymous)]

Right, it isn't difficult or time-consuming to do some very minimal and basic research about what kids are like at various ages.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm around a mixed age range of kids all the time but a lot of them have cognitive and/or physical disabilities and even when I've seen their info in the last few days I'm so, so bad at remembering their actual names and grades. There are only three ages to me:

Squirrely (4-7, struggles to sit still or focus, leetle enough that their feet swing in the chairs)

Kid (7-13, has more mental resources/abstract understanding than a Squirrel but not necessarily more focus, has not yet hit their second growth spurt. Feet hit the ground from chairs but they're still shorter than adults)

Teen (12-17, close to my height or possibly taller. may or may not be trying to act Cool)

but sometimes their are kids who mess up the categories, like the 10 year old who's extra short due to developmental stuff and also has ADHD who I always read as being borderline squirrel/kid and therefore closer to 7-8, or the 13 year old who hasn't hit his growth spurt yet and also has a lot of learning difficulties and so reads to me as the Same as the late elementary/8-10 year olds even though he's several years older.

[(Anonymous)]

*their AGES and grades, orz

names I remember

[(Anonymous)]

No siblings here, and all my cousins were older than me by over a decade.

First time I encountered someone below 5, I was 13 and babysitting, and hardly interacted with them as they slept through the night. I've never interacted with anyone under 3, except making funny faces at them in supermarkets.

Some of us just don't have that kind of life.