Yeah kids can be stupid and afraid of the dark, but kids can also be amazing. Adults can be just as immature as any child and children contain an innocence that adults can never have. It is taken away at some point. I'm not sure where it is. I guess you loose it a little each year untill you're grown, but adults just can't get this back. Even good people know of terrible things that children are often too young to understand. I also have nown kids to endure all kinds of abuse (both verbal and physical) at home and never let it get them down. I have seen children come out of terrible homes (my wife is one of them) to become wonderful people as adults. My father in law admires his daughter for half raising herself when he couldn't always do it himself because of his drugs (he is now 3 yrs clean). I hate it when I see people talk down to kids or treat them like less just because the're younger. It's downright disrespectful. And often, if you would look past the childish exterior, you just might see somebody you can look up to.
