How is it that a 4yo kid and an 8yo kid look and behave so differently while a 21yo person might as well look and behave the same as someone who is 5-6 years older?
In: Biology
To use an analogy, think of growing up like learning to cook. When you’re born, you still have to learn what bowls, silverware, spatulas, cans, pots, and pans are. All these are things you can get a general grasp on pretty quickly, but there are a lot of them.
speeding through a few things, you’re then going to have to learn how to mix food. It’s a bit more of a fine skill, and takes a bit longer to learn, but you can make quite a bit of progress quickly. Eventually you learn what to mix together when, that you can mix your dry ingredients ahead of time, that certain ingredients are tough to mix together, ect.
You’ll eventually get to things like fire and heat safety. These are skills that have pretty clear and obvious indicators. They also take a little time to generate habits for.
These are all early to mid childhood lessons. Late childhood early teens you’re probably learning to handle recipes on your own. Your food is going to come out more and more as expected.
Adulthood, though, is quite a bit different. You’re no longer working on the basic skills that make development obvious. Instead, you’re perfecting your own recipes. This is WAY harder to check progress on since, well, it’s not as easy to measure.
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