(Harvest) My kids have the mental age of ten and eleven year olds, because, well, they are ten and eleven years old!So, they fight pretty much constantly. For example: when my son wants past his sister in the hallway and she’s “in the way,” he hasn’t yet formulated the reasoning to wait for her to move, and instead shoves past, sending her into the wall. She, not having developed a cogent argument why this shouldn’t take place, whacks him.
Hard at work here are primal responses. Engaging the most developed part of our brain, the neocortex, which reasons and solves problems, isn’t happening in that example.
