“Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.” (Pg 163)

            I feel as if Anne has just gotten more and more wiser as her days in the secret annex moved along. Sometimes I feel like she may be wiser than her very own father. I completely agree with what she is saying. Still to this day, whenever a younger person says something that is bothering them or they don’t agree with or anything of that nature, adults shut them down thinking that their children’s thoughts will waste their time and isn’t worth listening to. I feel as if parents just seem to forget what it was like to be a child and how stressful life can be. A teenager’s life can be just as bad as an adult’s life. Children do have wisdom in them and sometimes are wiser than people older than them. As it is said sometimes, age is just a number.  They have a fresher outlook on life that is different to what his or her parents experienced during their childhood. Parents have the misconception that everything that comes out of their child’s mouth is silly before words even get the chance to come out. If parents actually took the time to sit down and listen to what their children had swimming in their mind, they would realize that their children try to look cool and hide a lot of things, while all that time in their minds there are genius ideas just waiting for someone to water them. It’s funny that adults like to say that children are the world’s future. They like to talk and worship this idea. It is funny to listen to them praise about this, while they shut out their own children’s ideas and tell him or her that their thoughts are not worth their time. Isn’t a parent’s job to water encouragement and support onto the growing flower of their child’s mind? They seem to contradict themselves a lot without even realizing it. I wonder if parents were ever told that what they thought as a child was stupid and if that was the thought that lead them to do the same to their own children. I am not trying to say that all parents are this way because that is certainly not true. There are many parents who encourage their children to do what they love and enjoy. There are parents who are open to debates, and they enjoy the thought that their child took the time to come up with arguments and set them out for them to do, but there are also many parents who are the opposite to that. Parents who shut their children up and raise them to be unconfident in their own opinions and ready to fight for their rights. It just depends what kind of family a child is brought up with.