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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Treat him like a grown up.

Be honest that some people need peace and quiet and while you enjoy spending time with him you can’t handle it all the time.

He’s old enough to understand it, and you’ll do a better job explaining it than some 10 year old he knows from school.

Kids are sponges and learn social cues like that really quickly, but someone has to tell them what’s going on. There is absolutely nothing wrong with telling a kid that age to chill out

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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Agree 99%. Two caveats:

In situations like this, yes. But there are certainly many situations a 10 year old is not equipped to deal with that adults are, because:

Remember that 10 year olds do not have the same comprehension, vocabulary, or mental resilience of an adult. Words can have long-term effects on their development that they might not for most adults.

(Saying this for OP more than for you, BTW)
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kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Treating kids like grown ups is very important for development.

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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s what they want more than anything too.
  
  Like, all the tools are baked in, but kids who don’t run into limits grow up to be adults who can’t recognize limits.
  
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  - Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I thought they “yearned for the mines”?
    
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    Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s why we gave them minecraft.
    
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    Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, the AP ones
    
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- Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And treating grown ups like kids is useful sometimes too!
  
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