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formerlyanonymous_ OP t1_jdi7ge8 wrote

Reply to comment by zorokash in Santa must have been really unreliable at deliveries prior to cartoons. Almost every cartoon character has had to help him at least once over the last 70 years. by formerlyanonymous_

No this has everything to do with kids cartoons having at least one dedicated christmas episode where the main character has to help Santa because some sort of catastrophe. His rates of catastrophe since the start of childrens' cartoons is extremely high. How on earth could he ever have succeeded when he's clearly relying on great logisticians such as Sponge Bob Squarepants or the Flintstones?

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Hardcorish OP t1_jdi74xn wrote

Reply to comment by Sleep-system in Adults that act like children a majority of their life result in their children having to act like adults for a majority of theirs. by Hardcorish

>They act like kids who have to adjust and survive, manage
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>basic functions like preparing meals or changing diapers

Certainly, and this is what I had in mind with this showerthought. I wasn't trying to portray the children as doing actual adult things like getting a job or paying taxes, etc.

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zorokash t1_jdi6x19 wrote

Reply to Santa must have been really unreliable at deliveries prior to cartoons. Almost every cartoon character has had to help him at least once over the last 70 years. by formerlyanonymous_

This is more of cultural misunderstanding of Americans not knowing how to deal with European customs and traditions.

Also this has something to do with American sentiment of anything old is bad and anything new and modern is always better.

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Sleep-system t1_jdi65pa wrote

Reply to comment by Hardcorish in Adults that act like children a majority of their life result in their children having to act like adults for a majority of theirs. by Hardcorish

I worked at a non-profit for homeless and drug addicted mothers for several years in the Bay Area. My mom is a social worker. I can promise you that for every one kid who "grows up fast" to take care of their siblings there are 50 who can barely take care of themselves let alone their siblings, are malnourished, extremely angry, extremely violent, having no coping skills, can't read, can't do basic math, can't focus, etc.

And those kids who "grew up too fast" are far from adults. They are children with cobbled together survival skills and often a deep distrust for adults. If they don't seek help they'll usually carry that distrust and trauma into adulthood, and guess what? They don't look anything like the plucky little kid who rose above the odds because putting on a strong face all those years while being emotionally deprived and abused profoundly damaged them psychologically.

I shouldn't have called you an idiot since I don't know whether or not you intended to suggest there was some silver lining or anything beneficial in kids acting like adults. But if you actually interact with them, they don't act much like adults. They act like kids who've had to adjust and survive, manage basic functions like preparing meals or changing diapers, and spend the rest of their time fortifying their fragile mental state. They're nothing like any adult you'd ever want to see.

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