Signs of Maturity: What Does It Mean to “Grow Up?” By: Dr. Gerald Steinhttp://drgeraldstein.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/signs-of-maturity-what-does-it-mean-to-grow-up/This was a
lengthy read and very fascinating...so grab your coffee cup....
I was thrilled to read this as a
definition of "Matuity," I'm still searching however for someone or anyone to actually put an "age" to when the very first signs of maturity or immaturity are exhibited.
From this thread written by Dr. Gerald Stein, I picked out (what I am going to bold print now) and use it carefully and loosely to support my theory that
signs of maturity and immaturity can begin with infancy."
Dr. Stein references:
Adlai Stevenson II, in his 1954 speech at the senior class dinner of his Alma Mater, Princeton University. These 55-year-old words spoken by the 54-year-old Stevenson are as appropriate now as then:"What he knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this:
The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions —
a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps, too, a little faith, and a little reverence for things you cannot see…"
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This is why some people or even kids have a loosely measurable maturity level that would seem to fill up an 18-wheeler were as some others maturity levels might not fill a coffee cup. Parents teaching and guidance (or other influences) are actually the polish and shaping on something that is already there... a base formula if you wish...that is already there in abundance or barely at all.
I alluded to
a base formula, before I read this Doctor's
theory.
a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound...in as far as my opinion is concerned
all infants are influenced by:
touch, sight, sound :side:
