As a child, did you ever wish that you were an adult? Or as an adult, did you ever wish that you could go back to being a child? Childhood and adulthood occur at different times in a person’s life. Childhood comes first. It’s the time you spend growing up. When a person gets to be eighteen, a person is considered to be an adult and entering adulthood. Adulthood is from that time and lasts for the rest of a person’s life. They are both are stages of life. Childhood and adulthood are similar and different when it comes to the behavior, responsibilities, and the fact that a person is growing and learning as an individual.
Children have less responsibilities than adults. Adults have to support themselves, whereas children have their parents or guardians to support and take care of them. When a person reaches a time in their life when they are considered an adult, they have to go out and get a job to make their own money for the things that they need. Adults have to get their own home, pay bills, do taxes, be smart with their money, and provide themselves with food and other necessities. Children are able to be less responsible than adults because they do not have to take care of themselves. A child has to depend on their parents to take care of them due to the fact that they aren’t capable of taking care of themselves. They depend on their parents for food, money, a home, and other things they might need while growing up. A child doesn’t have to worry about bills and taxes. In an article on Teen Ink, it said “Children prove to have a much easier lifestyle than adults, and have to only worry about few things” (Maturity: Childhood Vs. Adulthood). Responsibilities that a child never had to worry about growing up appear when they reach adulthood.
A child’s behavior differs from that of an adult’s. Children are less mature and seem to act wild in a comparison to adults. This can be due to the fact that children’s brains are not completely developed like an adult is. This can have an effect on the maturity level of a person. Boy’s brains aren’t fully developed until they are around twenty-five years old, which means a boy’s behavior is going to be different than a grown man’s behavior. A grown man will act mature and responsible, and a boy may act wild, irresponsible, and not do what they are told. With girls, their brains do not fully develop until they are around eighteen years old. This may be the reason that young girls are not as mature and responsible as a grown woman. Someone whose brain isn’t fully developed may tend to make riskier decisions than a person with a fully developed brain (At What Age Is The Brain Fully Developed). An adult might look at a child as if they are not well-behaved, but the reason for that could be simply that their brains aren’t fully developed during childhood.
The independence and amount of freedom for adults and children are different. A child has the freedom their parents or guardians allow them to have. Some children have little freedom while others have more. Children can’t do whatever they want to do. They have to obey their parents and follow the rules set for them by adults. Adults have more freedom and independence than children. They are able to do whatever they want to do as long as it is not breaking any laws. Adults stay out for as long as they want, go wherever they want to go whenever they want to go, and more. They are able to do more than children. It’s usually the lack of freedom and independence that a child has that makes them wish that they were already an adult while they are growing up.
The actions of a person changes from the time when they are in their childhood to the time they reach adulthood. Adults have to go out into the world and get jobs to support themselves. The chance to get a job as an adult can make a person grow more responsible and change their actions to where they are doing more productive things instead of childish things they would do when they were a child. A child doesn’t have to go out and gain responsibility by taking care of themselves so their actions are usually less productive than adults.
Decision making becomes more difficult in adulthood than it is in childhood. Children do not have to make all of their decisions on their own. Their parents will help them with decisions if they need them to. A child won’t have extremely difficult decisions to make. For example, a hard decision for them may be choosing how to handle a situation involving peer pressure from others. It may seem like a hard decision as a child, but if you are an adult, it doesn’t seem hard. Decisions in adulthood are difficult. An adult might have to choose which college to go to, which career they want to go in, or how to remove themselves out of situations involving conflict. Children and adults both have to make decisions, but childhood decisions will be easier most of the time since people will be there to help make a decision. Adults don’t always have people their to help them make a decision.
Immediate family for a person can be different during their childhood and adulthood. In a person’s childhood, their family will most likely consist of their parents and siblings in they’ve got any. It might become different after a person reaches adulthood because they might have their own family consisting of a spouse and children. Their spouse and children might become the family that they care about most, not that they would care about their siblings or parents any less. They’ll just feel the need to care more and watch our for their own family rather than continue always looking out for their parents and siblings.
A similarity in childhood and adulthood is the fact that during both stages of life, a person is still growing and learning as an individual. There is never a time in someone’s life where they’ll know everything there is to know about this life and how things work. Children are going to have more learning experiences and chances to grow than adults because children are relatively new to the world and have to learn everything as they go along. Adults are still learning as they get older. They just aren’t learning as much due to the fact that more learning happens during the childhood stage of life. Everyone, no matter what age, is always going to learn new things and life lessons.
In both childhood and adulthood, a person needs to have people around them that are going to support and encourage them through difficult times. A child would most likely have their parents or guardians to help support and encourage them with things in their lives. Children could possibly have siblings to be there for them as well whenever they need them. An adult isn’t always going to have their parents, guardians, or siblings around to be there for them when they need some support or encouragement with things that are going on in their life. That’s one downside to adulthood. As an adult, people have to learn that their parents won’t always be there. Throughout childhood and adulthood, there are going to occasions and circumstances where a person might need support and encouragement from someone else, a shoulder to lean on. A child will most likely have their family for that, whereas adults might have to use their close friends. It doesn’t matter if a person is a child or an adult, everyone needs some support every once in a while.
Everyone is going to go through the stages of life. Everyone goes from being a child to an adult. Childhood is a time in a person’s life where they can grow as an individual and learn things they will need to know when they are an adult. Adulthood is a time in a person’s life where they’re going to have to be responsible and learn how to take care of themselves to establish a healthy and honest living. When it comes to behavior, actions, and responsibilities, there is a difference, but no matter the age, a person is always growing and learning. Childhood and adulthood are a part of life and we have to go through the easier way of life as a kid before getting thrown into the real world to be on our own as an adult.
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