Just be mature enough! Take that childish behavior away from you!
EMOTIONAL AGE or psychological age becomes evident in their habits and emotional reactions regardless of their physical age. Can you spot those signs that he (or she) has childish adult behavior?
Emotional Childishness refers to persons that have childish adult behavior. You can identify it by looking at these signs.
Emotional escalations
Children often cry or mad easily. Adults also doing this sometimes.
Blaming
When things go wrong, children tend to pinpoint someone to blame. Adults must look for solutions to fix that problem.
Lies
In times of trouble, children might lie in order to stay out of it. Adults deal with reality and they’re speaking the truth.
Name-calling
Children may do ad hominem attacks, like calling names or having personal attacks, on their friends. Adults prefer to attack the problem rather than their peers. Adults also need to understand the situation.
Impulsivity
Children take actions without looking for possible outcomes. They impulsively interrupt instead of listening to other people’s perspective. Adults need to calm themselves first before dealing with the problem. They tend to seek information and analyzing possible options.
Needs to be the center of attention
Children tend to interfere just to have their attention. Adults prefer to ignore those attention seekers and focus on their current work.
Immature defenses
Defense mechanism can be useful depending on the situation. Children use their defense mechanism just to protect themselves like they tend to regard the best defense as a strong offense. Children also using “denial” as their defense. Adults tend to engage in collaborative problem solving and troubleshooting.
Budding narcissism
According to Susan Heitler from Psychology Today, narcissism is associated with tall man syndrome, that is, ” when someone who is larger (in having more money, more prestige, a larger voice, being a better athlete — not necessarily by being physically tall) develops a belief that she or he is above the rules that everyone else is expected to follow.“
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