Leave Kids Out Of It

This is something I’ve been over and over. Because I can’t imagine doing it myself. I've written about it in detail on other sites, done doing that here.

People really need to learn to leave kids alone. Even if they disagree with them.

All showing aggression to kids is gonna do is hinder the kids. Kids are just learning, just mucking about with ideas. Let them.

Same with being angry with a kid cos the kid disagrees with you. What you gonna change about a 12-year old’s opinions by yelling at them? Sod all. The only opinion that’ll change is they’ll become scared to speak their minds.

That’s the intention imo. To scare. Not to convince. And there’s nothing nice in that.

This is part of why I’ve stepped down a lot from online arguments – you don’t know who’s on the other end of the screen so even well-intentioned people might be arguing with a 13-year-old kid.
 

But when I started having issues with this, it was irl. Something I really can’t get my head around.
 

Lot of people going about with a lot of anger & they should stop & think how to handle that.