12-10-2024, 07:01 PM
https://www.resetera.com/threads/parentera-when-should-you-start-talking-about-the-salty-in-the-sweet-of-life-to-kids.1056870/
sionydus wrote:I don't have kids and may never have any, but I'm temporarily living with my parents in the suburbs and see parents with kids much more often than when I lived in the city.
Recently, I heard a kid (maybe around 8 or so? I dunno, I can't tell kid ages) ask "what is nostalgia?" Looking up from his phone. The mom came back with a very positive explanation about "warm fuzzy feelings" about something from the past "that makes you happy."
That's nothing outright wrong about that explanation, I thought to myself, but my immediate reaction was "Yeah, but what the pain of nostalgia, and the trouble it can get you in if you chase after it?" Then I realized that maybe it's a good thing I'm not around kids much lol.
So I thought to ask: when do you wait explain the more subtle bittersweet aspects of life to young people? And is it just to wait until they can grasp it, or is it to maintain their sense of innocence?
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