What are the main differences between communicating with adults and communicating with children?
Children are less focused on with whom they communicate and are more internal about their communications. To a child, they themselves are the world in an egocentric way and they have less observation for the external consequences of their actions. The thought process of children can at times be more linear than an adult’s. Children have less experience, and sometimes simply spout was is on their mind at that moment, what they have heard, or what might give them the desired response. Children have fewer filters with what they say and will generally speak plainly about situations and circumstances.
Adults in contrast will be able to use years of experience to create a response and communicate with language that has been effective for themselves or for others in the past. Adult communication can at times be deceptive and more roundabout if they are uncertain about their response, but generally it is simply a more experienced response.
Overall, a child’s communication has a bit more naivity in words and a degree of innocence to responses, whereas an adult is more aware of the response of the person and more aware another individual.
Children communicate with truth in mind and adult communicate with “worldly truth” in mind. Children can spot liars a mile away and adults can lie for miles on end. Children talk to express honest thoughts and emotions and adults express what they have convinced themselves is true. I’d rather talk to a kid than most adults any day. They actually listen (aren’t busy think of what they will say next) and when they talk it isn’t just to make clever conversation or to pass the time away.
