Introduction
There are ranges of life as one grows, with similarities and differences in each. They can further be divided into two classes comprising children and adults. How life is lived at these two stages are distinct but specific aspects of how the thought behaves and how it reasons situations can be obviously one of a kind or strangely similar. These similarities and differences between these stages can be in contrast and contrasted by using thoughts, actions and the usual will of a person at a certain age and understanding.
Contrasting Actions and Responses
Adults and children can be contrasted in how they act and the way they bodily respond to situations. Children do act in a freer manner, worrying mostly about themselves, over time learning to consider others views and feelings when completing an action. However, adult’s actions are entirely controlled by thoughts and feelings aware of the world around them. Children act on impulses, while adults have been mentally trained to perform against these notions, working in a way to appear acceptable in their society.
Pressure to Conform
There is a lot of pressure on adults to conform to acting a certain way, as there is for children, but only adults feel the pressure. Children are somewhat of aware of what they can get away with, and through figuring this out, they learn how to act out. By the time they are adults, they can understand what is acceptable at what times and what is not. Whether they conform to these standards or not is their choice, but they are aware of the existence of these measures. This knowledge enables adults to make decisions on their choice, aware of consequences to some degree. (Waldboth, Veronika,44) Others around them know that they were aware of this, and have expectations increasing the pressure to act that way. On the other hand, children aren't expected to be informed, and others' expectations are lower for them.
Differences in Learning and Capabilities
There is also a mental difference in learning abilities and different capabilities between children minds and adult minds, but the underlying thoughts, instinctive thoughts, remain. Opinions will be free and selfish, and not governed in the same way the actions are, allowing views to express the real intentions and to be more than their efforts. Children allow these thoughts to control their actions more than the adults do, linking thoughts and actions more directly and less controlled, the opposite of how adults tend to be. Again, adults have to sort their feelings through filters making sure the activities born from these thoughts represent the actual picture of their desires, and due to this adult have to hold and process so many thoughts than children do.
Different Phases of Life
Having access to these ideas can lead to a more rewarding life for adults, but the experience is probably not more straightforward than the standard child's life. (Sowell, and Christian 150) For child's life, it mostly involves learning the basics of life. Always provided with what is needed to survive, and they focus on discovering how the world around them works. They have pushed along and given directions by others towards time in their lives when they no longer need to be sold. On the other side, adults are capable of standing on their own feet and rely mostly on themselves by obtaining what they want and need to be satisfied. (Waldboth and Veronika, 46).
The Will of a Person
From thoughts, actions come in which can be different or similar, but what is unique in the two stages is that in each there is the ability to do what they desire and do it for a reason. This is the will of a person, for children and adults, both are strong in various ways. A child's willpower comes from the strength of their desires which is their way of attaining freedom. Because children trust others to grant their wishes when the time comes to want something that they needed, they ask for it, and if not given they complain or even try another way. However, the younger life of a child will not be concerned with how the situation is reasonable, but whether to gain from it or not. For adults, it is an entirely different story. (Sowell, and Christian 128) When adults want something, amongst the main factors is what others think about the decision they make. Adults are expected to fight for themselves and use reliable ways to get what they want. If unable to obtain what they need, they can only blame themselves. Also, because adults have the freedom to plan their life instead of being dragged through it, their aspirations are completed on a more significant scale and made real. Children may have big dreams, but unable to reach them with their current capabilities. (Sherman and Lansford, 38).
Conclusion
In reality, children and adults have several similarities that are learned to be controlled and trained for differences. Similar thoughts can produce different actions, and willpower maybe impulsive or momentary. What they discover as children, and what they choose to remember as an adult will shape them into the human they are, that is a child or adult.
Works Cited
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Sowell, Elizabeth R., and Christian K. Tamnes. "Structural brain development between childhood and adulthood: Convergence across four longitudinal samples." (2016). Waldboth, Veronika, et al.
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