Kids are people, too … Or at least that’s what they would like us to believe. I’m sure there was a focus group of kids in a lunchroom somewhere that fine tuned that expression. There are no adjectives, I’ve noticed.
Kids are tidy people, too, wouldn’t cut it. From the youngest simply dropping their action figures in mid run down a hall to teens clearly not getting how a hanger works – kids are not tidy and they were clever to leave that part out in their proclamation of their people-ness.
Kids are agreeable people, too. No. And that’s not me disagreeing with the statement. That’s the first word out of their toothless mouths after ‘Mama’ or ‘Dada’.
“Oh, I think its time for someone to have a nap”.
“No.”
“Just one brussel sprout. Please?”
“No”
And speaking of trying new foods, its not ‘Kids are daring people, too’. The young focus group knew enough to omit any word implying openness to venture beyond the feel-good of a cardboard box filled with carb-packed noodles and powdered pretend cheese.
Kids are financially responsible people, too. I don’t think so. No savers in my house. But we do have some budding politicians.
“I promise not to wear my shoes in the house ever again in exchange for getting all my 2008 allowance today.” If they knew the power that a pledge to lower taxes had, they’d throw that in.
Kids are attentive people, too. I still marvel at the time wasted by me and Mickey D to find good names for our kids. If we knew they wouldn’t respond when we called them anyway, we would have just slapped something together for the birth certificates.
Kids are knowledge seeking people, too. You know this isn’t the case when you witness the sheer jubilation a snow day with cancelled buses brings. Or, joy to all, the newly crowned Fog day that shut things down. Now they are hoping for a Drizzle Day, a Winds Coming In From The North Day, or a Possibility of Excessive Dew Day.
Kids are loyal people, too, wouldn’t fly.
“Mom. Can I rent a game for the GameCube?”
“No.”
“Okay. Dad, can I rent a game for the GameCube?”
Kids are discreet people, too. Not.
“My mom is way older than your mom and none of her clothes fit her after she ate so much chocolate at Christmas.”
The fact they were bright enough not to include any adjectives would lead you to Kids are smart people, too. But they ditched ‘smart’ so they could respond with the parental pleaser “I don’t know” when asked “Who put the empty milk container back in the fridge?” or “Who wrote on their little brother with marker?”
Every kid or teen has had to have the ‘I don’t know’ at their disposal. “But where is the car now?” was posed to me by my parents many years ago to which I found the ‘I don’t know’ very handy.
So we’re left with ‘Kids are people, too’. Yeah, I guess we can give them that.
