Act your age.

I remember hearing that a whole lot back in high school. "Act your age! You're growing up, you should be maturing!" I was like, "I don't know how many teenagers you know... but from what I've seen I'm the most mature of the lot." You're right, it is a weird thing for people to say. I don't think there's a standard for how people should behave at a certain age. Don't think older means we need to be more serious. lol

When someone tells me that, I get confused because I know that I have my calendar age and my mental and emotional age. I just want to be myself, whatever or however I may come across to you, whether or not I look like I am acting inappropriately for my age, that is none of your business because no one is a perfect judge to one's conduct or behavior.

A bit confusing sometimes, because there are people who we may say are a bit older but acts or thinks the way a teener does and vice versa.Yes, age is just a number so if you are in your early teens but you acted responsibly and your outlook in life is like that of a mature person then you are not acting your age and some matured person acts like youngster is the same.Any rules or basis to act on anyone's age?

This is true, you are only as old as you feel, and there are still kids in each of us. I'm 21, i'm not even sure what a 21 year old suppose to act like.

As I see it, one must act his age when he is confronting problems or about or is solving one. Anything other than that, he can act younger than his age to prevent wrinkles and a really sober life hehe.

I think it is good if you have the experience to know how to act in the particular situation you're in. You know how to approach, can handle what you are facing right now. You can meet people on their levels in a good manner. You can laugh at yourself. See the good parts of life with a positive attitude.

age IS just a number and fortunately, i dont act my age nor do i look my age either!

Yeah - no kidding. Talk about validating stereotypes and trying to pigeon-hole people! If I "acted my age" according to statistical norms, I'd probably be spending way too much money on Budweiser, scratching myself in places unmentionable and belching as "my team" is "kicking butt" or "getting screwed by the refs". I'd be blasting my horn at anyone who DARES not floor it once the light turns green. I'd be wagging my finger at teens and their droopy pants, while simultaneously dropping glances at young fems you-know-whats, imagining what perfectly fitting (not drooping) pants are hiding. I'd be complaining about taxes all the while b/ing about potholes not getting fixed or about the "decline of education today". "Act your age" is nothing but a euphamism for pretending to be more mature and sophisticated than everybody else, even as the truth screams otherwise. -stan

That phrase is not only amusing to me but also difficult to achieve. Sometimes I feel very young. It usually happens in Summer, when joint don´t hurt so much and sun caresses my skin. Other times I fell older than my mother. In theory that is not possible. Yet, my mother at 86 seems to have her head on her shoulders in a way that I have lost a long time ago. My feet "act their age" in Winter as I wear comfortable low heeled shoes. They are brown, and I hate myself for not having bought 10 pairs of the same, when I bought them. In Summer, my feet go on a spree. They think they are young and put on sandals of all the colours of the rainbow. You are right. Age, it seems, has to do with birthdays. But on the other hand, is it bad when you wake up one day with no special pains, singing while you shower, wanting to make a cake or do some extra gardning that you hadn´t dared do the day before? Moods change, and so does age then. Let´s just laugh at those sentences that wantt to put us all inside our age´s prison.

I find the phrase silly as well.The last person who said that to me I laughed and said "if you reverse my age Im 2 years old you know". I agree that age is just a number it doesnt mean that you cant be fun.

I and my husband taught our children not to act in their age, my husband's way of talking to our children is just like talking to an adult. As I can see, the result is good because they are matured even talking with someone.

I'm agree, the age is just numbers. I don't really care what people say. I'm 20, but I guess I act like a 35 years old person. I constanly worried about my future, about having work, about cleaning my house, about paying the bills (even when this is all up to my parents), about my goals, about being someone (even when is too early to being someone). I act like an older person, I'm interested on things that someone from my age didn't care, I want things that I guess not even my parents have dreamed. But I like being like this, I'm mature and focused and works good for me, no matter what others say.

I agree with you. I was just having a conversation the other day with a couple of friends. We were dicussing how we couldnt believe that we had kids. I mean just a few years ago we were in high school, (well not a couple of years.. more than that, but you get what I mean). We still young, but at the same time we are middle aged. Its hard to explain.