#18: The Guilt
The older you get, the more you realize that adults don’t always treat children with the respect they deserve. Everyone seems to think that kids are different and don’t require the same respect that adults give one another. But whenever kids are spoken to or treated like actual human beings, they flourish.
If grown-ups actually realized that they struggle to treat kids with respect, then we’re pretty sure the guilt of feeling that would eat them up inside. But that’s the thing; most of the time, they don’t even realize that kids deserve to be treated with the same respect that adults give one another.