Kid...Your definition?

[PB_and_J]

lately I have been noticing a lot of people considering people "kids" on term of their maturity, not their age.

A young person of either sex (between birth and puberty)

So my question is...how do you decide if someone is a "kid", on terms of their maturity or age?

[[SK]Paddo]

everyone i would not consider to be talkin about s*x with.

[Locketart]

To me kid means a little boy or girl. I have another name for immature people.

[Luoma]

Mixture of both

[Reise]

If someone calls you a kid like it's an insult, that person is a moron.

[papa59roach]

i consider a kid to be teh person or persons under teh age of 11.52

[MastaChiefX]

Age.

[dom]

If someone calls you a kid like it's an insult, that person is a moron.

Concur. That applies to the word "fa(double-g)ot" as well. There's better words, example:

everyone i would not consider to be talkin about s*x with.

idiot.

[ghostkilla43]

i think both...
for example im 15 but i way more mature and a lot of my freinds...
you could be 20 and be as mature as a 2 year old...i tihnk its both

[IguanaRampage]

Age. As Reise said, its not an insult. To call someone immature, a moron, an idiot, or something like the above, would be an insult, not "kid".

[FBIRem]

I use kid as a term of endearment with anyone younger then me. Guess it's an old-fashioned southern thing, but I still pretty often will say, "How've you been kid?" and other such phrases to anyone who I suspect is even an hour younger then me.

Chalk me down as an "age" person too then I suppose.

[dom]

I use kid as a term of endearment with anyone younger then me. Guess it's an old-fashioned southern thing, but I still pretty often will say, "How've you been kid?" and other such phrases to anyone who I suspect is even an hour younger then me.

Chalk me down as an "age" person too then I suppose.

That's different. Kid as an insult.

[Elikapeka]

Maturity, definitely. I'm sure there are 12 year-olds out there with more responsibility and maturity than some 20 year-olds in the world. Although I'm not prone to calling people by "kid" or any other term of the like, unless I'm joking or know the person is at least 10 years younger than myself.

Just wondering, do most people think children and kid mean the same thing? Or does that also get defined by age/maturity? Hm, that's a whole other topic in itself.

[XemnasXD]

maturity.....there are alot of adults who i'd still consider kids

[XuChu]

I'm a kid
Lucky me! Being kid owns!

[Itonami]

maturity.

[Draquish]

Age.

As much as you would want...you can't fly a plane at 5.

[dom]

maturity.....there are alot of adults who i'd still consider kids

There's a lot of "mature" kids who think they're adults.

[XemnasXD]

maturity.....there are alot of adults who i'd still consider kids

There's a lot of "mature" kids who think they're adults.

Theres also alot of mature kids who act more responsible and handle more responsibility than many adults....

[dom]

maturity.....there are alot of adults who i'd still consider kids

There's a lot of "mature" kids who think they're adults.

Theres also alot of mature kids who act more responsible and handle more responsibility than many adults....

and, I wouldn't say that about real adults. In the 20s (thus, neo-adults ), it may be true. Otherwise, kids don't have enough life experience to handle things. Much of the time, the adult looks more irresponsable, but the kid doesn't understand the burdens and stresses of real life - the motives.

[Razzmatazz]

goat.......


or maturity

[Rainigul]

goat.......

Damit, you beat me to it

Anyways, I think people who use "kid" as an insult are idiots.
They obviously say it because they have nothing else to insult you with.
Just because someone is young doesn't make them worse than you.

[XemnasXD]

maturity.....there are alot of adults who i'd still consider kids

There's a lot of "mature" kids who think they're adults.

Theres also alot of mature kids who act more responsible and handle more responsibility than many adults....

and, I wouldn't say that about real adults. In the 20s (thus, neo-adults ), it may be true. Otherwise, kids don't have enough life experience to handle things. Much of the time, the adult looks more irresponsable, but the kid doesn't understand the burdens and stresses of real life - the motives.

Im not going to get into an argument about this Neo-Blah....but I have some friends who work 2 job live in section 8 housing (paid for by the gov't) and try to finish there school while they're parents (who are in there 30's) do nothing but get high and pray for food stamps....some ppl would look at them (my friends) and say they're still kids i wouldn't....

Chances are if an adult looks more irresponsible than the child than that adult probably doesn't understand the stresses of real life.....i think we can both agree that growing up is a process that doesn't in your 30's 40's or 50's it continues until you die because you are constantly changing your ideas/perspectives on the burdens of real life because they change as you age......its not uncommon for 80 year olds to refer to 60 year olds as kids


im done im going to bed before you come back with some nonsensical neo-blah blah blah devils advocate crap that'll just piss me off like last time....

[Nuklear]

lately

Lately as in the sec you signed up for the forums and every single time people define kids as immature 14 year olds you're there to defend people like yourself with that huge cape on your back? Ya....that lately.

Give
it
a
rest

[Cloverleaf]

everyone i would not consider to be talkin about s*x with.

Such as your grandmother?

[Sharp324]

I use kid as a term of endearment with anyone younger then me. Guess it's an old-fashioned southern thing, but I still pretty often will say, "How've you been kid?" and other such phrases to anyone who I suspect is even an hour younger then me.

Chalk me down as an "age" person too then I suppose.

Yeah same here.

[dom]

maturity.....there are alot of adults who i'd still consider kids

There's a lot of "mature" kids who think they're adults.

Theres also alot of mature kids who act more responsible and handle more responsibility than many adults....

and, I wouldn't say that about real adults. In the 20s (thus, neo-adults ), it may be true. Otherwise, kids don't have enough life experience to handle things. Much of the time, the adult looks more irresponsable, but the kid doesn't understand the burdens and stresses of real life - the motives.

Im not going to get into an argument about this Neo-Blah....but I have some friends who work 2 job live in section 8 housing (paid for by the gov't) and try to finish there school while they're parents (who are in there 30's) do nothing but get high and pray for food stamps....some ppl would look at them (my friends) and say they're still kids i wouldn't....

Chances are if an adult looks more irresponsible than the child than that adult probably doesn't understand the stresses of real life.....i think we can both agree that growing up is a process that doesn't in your 30's 40's or 50's it continues until you die because you are constantly changing your ideas/perspectives on the burdens of real life because they change as you age......its not uncommon for 80 year olds to refer to 60 year olds as kids


im done im going to bed before you come back with some nonsensical neo-blah blah blah devils advocate crap that'll just piss me off like last time....

Ideas, perspective, and will to suceed in life are not what make you an adult. You haven't argued that your friends parents are not adults, you've argued that they are lazy and unwilling.

[Jex]

Kid to me is someone either immature, irresponsible, inexperienced or disrepespectful, if i call someone a Kid i'm not insulting them, I'm just not going to waste effort being polite or nice to someone who clearly wont give it back.

when it's about age, they are just 'young' a child, or little.

[MonstaH]

everyone i would not consider to be talkin about s*x with.

Such as your grandmother?

ROFL.

[XemnasXD]

maturity.....there are alot of adults who i'd still consider kids

There's a lot of "mature" kids who think they're adults.

Theres also alot of mature kids who act more responsible and handle more responsibility than many adults....

and, I wouldn't say that about real adults. In the 20s (thus, neo-adults ), it may be true. Otherwise, kids don't have enough life experience to handle things. Much of the time, the adult looks more irresponsable, but the kid doesn't understand the burdens and stresses of real life - the motives.

Im not going to get into an argument about this Neo-Blah....but I have some friends who work 2 job live in section 8 housing (paid for by the gov't) and try to finish there school while they're parents (who are in there 30's) do nothing but get high and pray for food stamps....some ppl would look at them (my friends) and say they're still kids i wouldn't....

Chances are if an adult looks more irresponsible than the child than that adult probably doesn't understand the stresses of real life.....i think we can both agree that growing up is a process that doesn't in your 30's 40's or 50's it continues until you die because you are constantly changing your ideas/perspectives on the burdens of real life because they change as you age......its not uncommon for 80 year olds to refer to 60 year olds as kids


im done im going to bed before you come back with some nonsensical neo-blah blah blah devils advocate crap that'll just piss me off like last time....

Ideas, perspective, and will to suceed in life are not what make you an adult. You haven't argued that your friends parents are not adults, you've argued that they are lazy and unwilling.

the poll isn't about what makes you an adult its about what you consider to be a kid. I went with Maturity because IMO you are no longer a kid if you have to work to support your family, paying bills, cooking dinner, taking care of the house things like that. These are normally responsibilities associated with being an adult (not a kid), if an "kid" reaches a point in his life where he's 17 18 and knows how to take care of himself as well as his brothers and sisters i think they're mature enough not to be considered kids.

As you pointed out early understanding the "burdens" of RL is something kids can't do. I think having a job and taking care of a family is the main burden of RL and because some ppl who are in there 30's still haven't moved out of there mothers house i would say they do not understand the burdens and stresses of RL. So would you call those kinds of ppl adults or kids. I'd call them kids. Of course as you age your burdens become different from

job/school>job/college>job/apartment>job/family/house>etc

so yes IMO your ideas/perspectives on the burdens of RL change as you age and require a certain amount of maturity to deal with sucessfully....there are plenty of ppl who have made familys they're not ready to take care of and imo those ppl are still kids....


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