{"id":3498,"date":"2012-02-16T11:28:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2013-06-17T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:15:27","slug":"growing-up-thursdaysthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/growing-up-thursdaysthought\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When do people &#8220;grow up&#8221; and what do we mean by this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do we expect people to behave in a different way from let&#8217;s say they first <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/tag\/starting-school\/\">start school<\/a> to 30 years after they&#8217;ve left?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do we judge people on how &#8220;grown up&#8221; we deem them to be? Or is this a not a very grown up way to behave\/think? Do we behave worse in groups? Has the internet and social networking sites given opportunity for new types of immaturity and grudge holding?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do we hold different ideas about what being &#8220;grown up&#8221; is all about?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Does being &#8220;grown up&#8221; mean you have to be responsible and considerate to others?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do men and women &#8220;grow&#8221; at different rates? Do either sex hold opinions for longer than others?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is there an age we expect people to have &#8220;grown&#8221; by?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you grow up too soon or too quickly?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do people ever really change much?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do some people never grow up?<\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_3510\" style=\"width: 247px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><strong>Do certain life events force us to &#8220;grow&#8221;?<\/strong><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/about\/an-important-message\/\">Cancer<\/a> scare, the<a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/about\/staying-safe-on-the-roads\/\"> loss<\/a> of a loved one, difficult relationships?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/about\/loss\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111008-142323.jpg?resize=482%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"482\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When do you feel like you &#8220;grew up&#8221;? Or do you feel that it still has to happen?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is there anything that made you grow up?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Or some significant event when you knew you had?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Was there anything or anyone that helped you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maybe your first <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/547-2\/miscellaneous\/cars\/\">car<\/a>? you got <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/2011\/10\/14\/marriage-is-it-worth-it\/\">married<\/a>? your first house? the<a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/2012\/01\/09\/one-born-every-minute-pain\/\"> birth<\/a> of your first child? <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/2011\/11\/02\/divorce\/\">Divorced<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When do people &#8220;grow up&#8221; and what do we mean by this? Do we expect people to behave in a different way from let&#8217;s say they first start school to 30 years after they&#8217;ve left? Do we judge people on how &#8220;grown up&#8221; we deem them to be? Or is this a not a very &#8230; <a title=\"Growing Up\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/growing-up-thursdaysthought\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Growing Up\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[146,308,490,510,640,747,751,752,1043,1160,1849],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pinkoddy","author_link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/author\/pinkoddy\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When do people &#8220;grow up&#8221; and what do we mean by this? 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