Aged Like a Fine Whine
Children are expected to do things and be things adults no longer feel like doing or being. For example: children are expected to be nice, eat healthy, be active, learn new things, and comply with social standards--whether in a home, a classroom, or in public. The adults who expect these things are often no longer willing to be or do most of them, if any of them at all. They eat "whatever [they] want," do "whatever [they] want," and don't adhere to common social standards of politeness or following rules. However, the most important thing adults expect of children but not of themselves is an ancient word: resilience ( resilience (n.) 1620s, "act of rebounding," from Latin resiliens , present participle of resilire "to rebound, recoil," from re - "back" (see re- ) + salire "to jump, leap" (see salient (adj.)).) Legend has it adults were once quite resilient. But, that was millenia ago, recorded on stone tablets in