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[blackie]

People has gone to extremes to protect children. They order their kids not to go outside too far, not to touch any household appliances, and not to eat a new vodka-flavored ice cream launched in Australia. I think these children must feel bored in that they like inmates are deprived of freedom to discover some quaint things. On the other hand, they must be eager to ask their parents " Why are there lots of things I cannot do, but you adults can?

Parents often tell their children it will do yer body harm to stay up late; however, in reality, who always stays up late? Parents do. They like lawmakers establish lots of laws which are used as regulatin' children but not themselves. They prohibit kids from eatin' booze-flavored ice cream, but they cannot tell kids an appropriate reason why they cannot give it a shot. I absolutely agree that kids are too young to differentiate between truth and false, but sometimes parents take it too seriously. It is but a new flavor of ice cream not marijuana. As long as kids aren't addicted to it, I think everythin' is worth tryin'.

[asterix]

Maybe if more adults (especially politicians) smoked marijuana the world would be a more laid back place.

[Passerby]

Yes, sometimes children are filled with confusion and doubts about why what they see presents such a huge difference from what they are told.

You know, now I could tell the feelings a bit between the impotence to beg and the full power over others weak and tame. As long as you grow up, you feel you are treated with more appropriate rights and regard and it seems, you are empowered more and more from your elderly as you grow. And now, I feel strange because I don't think I'm growing that much, just on the contrary, I think I'm exactly as the same as what i used to be before.

Maybe that's because of love and protect or maybe that's even because of dierespect from those elderly, they might think, it's just certain that kid is kid. Well, to be honest with you, yes, kid is kid and what a kid thinks is really different, sometimes, unmature and inappropriate. Yes, I agree. BUt, inside, I think there's a complex structure and principle that holds the balance between aldults and children and to explain it seems impossible. Sometimes, a reason to forbid you might take you an entire life to figure it out, just you can't tell it why at this moment.

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[LucentShade]

This doesn't exactly relate to children, but in the U.S., you can be drafted into the military to go and die for your country when you turn 18, but you still have to wait three years until you can legally buy alcohol. Until the mid 1970's, 18-20 year-olds couldn't vote, but protests during the Vietnam War caused the voting age to be lowered to 18.