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“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Long Kids Age Fighting Felt Parent Prove Long Time Adults Treated Peers Cocky Savvy

Author:Ezra Miller

“I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.”

Children Bigs Equal Adults Treated Big Families

Author:Blake Lively

“If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.”

Ifs Want Acting Adults Treated

Author:Michael Cera

“Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.”

Thinking Children Film Understanding Adults Performances Treated Naive Pretense

Author:Wallace Shawn

“It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.”

Way Children Country Earth Changed Terrible Adults Leaving Treated Usa Obese

Author:Richard Simmons

“The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different.”

World Children Different Certain Equal Understood Concepts Adults Treats Boundaries Treated Integration Erosion

Author:Marie Winn

“Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.”

“I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

Thinking Kids Felt Parent Adults Treated Cocky

Author:Ezra Miller

“On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into our craft as adults, and maybe even more because we have school to do and a lot of things to figure out.”

School Actors Effort Figures Normal Adults Treated Crafts

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.”

Mother Adults My Family Treated Eccentric Unorthodox

Author:Laura Prepon

“I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh or not, about the world of work. Keeping people in the dark and filling them with stories that are either mostly fabricated, unusually rare, or both, doesn't do anyone any good. It is one of the reasons that workplaces and careers remain in such dire straits.”

People World Needs Ideas Reason Stories Reality Dark Careers Adults Treated Rejects Harsh Workplace Infant Filling

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.”

People Needs Use Happens Able Growth Decision Information Development Training Adults Opposites Personal Growth Treated Workplace Professional Development

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.”

Ifs Behavior Adults Deserve Responsible Treated Employee Supervision

Author:Eric Harvey

“I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.”

Thinking Trying Kids Order Stuff Boys Brother Dad Daughter Adults My Dad Dinner Treated My Brother Menus Like A Boy

Author:Emma Watson

“We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.”

Years Said Two Enough Moments Facts Hands Kids Turns Felt Sides Situation Teacher Fronts Serious Needed Adults Treats Treated Mature Frustrating Respectable Annoyed Had Enough Badges

Book:Darkness Be My Friend

Source: Darkness Be My Friend

“No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.”

Matter Done Dream Kids Wish Wonder Childhood Letting Go Adults Likes Treated

Book:Robopocalypse: A Novel

Source: Robopocalypse: A Novel

“My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?”

People Knows Kind Together Mother Grew Mom Grew Up Adults My Mom Motherhood Treated Workaholic Curfew Like A Sister Family Oriented

Author:Kelly Clarkson