Something that adults forget is that kids are sensitive because everything is new to them, so everything is pretty intense. I recently had an interaction with a seven-year-old who had bumped his elbow and it made him cry. But as an adult, bumping my elbow wouldn't make me cry, so I was momentarily confused until I remembered being a child and hitting the "funny bone" in my elbow and it feeling pretty awful. I realized that if that was his first time feeling that, it probably was pretty upsetting. Basically everything feels more intense in kids.
Something that adults forget is that kids are sensitive because everything is new to them, so everything is pretty intense. I recently had an interaction with a seven-year-old who had bumped his elbow and it made him cry. But as an adult, bumping my elbow wouldn't make me cry, so I was momentarily confused until I remembered being a child and hitting the "funny bone" in my elbow and it feeling pretty awful. I realized that if that was his first time feeling that, it probably was pretty upsetting. Basically everything feels more intense in kids.
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