The feelings of a child are tender and need to be treated carefully.
If by some means the child is put through some stress then that child will to some degree be affected in his or her future life. You, yourself may have at some time as a child felt this very same feeling of sadness or felt mistreated (uncured mistreatedness can be a powerful affect on an adults life, a negative affect that will hide the inner-person).
I believe that children should be just left to grow up without adult pushing them to be adults or abusing them. If the child is abused or grows-up-to-early the child can have mental issues like depression and anxiety as a result.
All the best from James Martin Sandbrook. Friday, 4 August 2006, 4:41:24 PM.