Why Do the Grown-Ups Assume that They Know Everything?

I do hate this kind of know-it-all attitude of some adults. They think, just because they experienced life longer and they have more candles on their cake, they know everything better than young people, so they don't even give a chance to younger people to form an opinion, because 2that's stupid anywayse". Gah, how I hate this kind of attitude...

Why do you think that all grown-ups think they know everything. I don't know who you know, however none of the people I know think they know everything, and I sure don't know everything nor do I want to. There is way to much information out there to even begin to want to know it all. Unless of course you're talking about people with the attitude of being a know it all and think they have to have an answer for everything even though they know nothing about it. I know some people like that and they just make me laugh.

I like to discuss.. and I like the exchange of ideas. I don't think I'm suspicious of people's motives. But I think you're right that most of us, humans, do a lot of talking and not much listening! And also, there's a lot of strange ideas out there..

You don't know anything just because you are a grown-up, nobody knows everything. I have found that the more that I have learned the more I realise how woefully ignorant I really am. The people who think they know everything tend not to know much and whats bad about this is because they don't realise it so don't do anything about it as they don't try and do something about it. A better person may know as little or less than them but they realise it and try to learn more.

Hi, you are right. Grown ups always assume that they know everything. they think that they have more knowledge than the youngsters because they have more experience than the youngsters. But it is not always true. They also can make mistakes. So they should understand the feelings of the other people also.

Because when they were young they thought they knew a lot of things but ended up having unlike able results from their actions. Thinking hat they've already learned from their mistake, they dontwantvthe young people to undergo what happened to them, but then theydontvrealize the diversity of human experience. Each other's experiences are different, people might do the same thing but can end up with different results depending on circumstances and opportunities. My mom is like that too, she'll never admit that she's wrong in whatever topic. She'll always say, I've been there, I've done that, dont argue with me. Sometimes she's wrong but most of the time she hits the nail on the head its nice to trust them too. :)

Have no fear, don't fret, I never once thought you knew everything all the best, urban

Because they think that wisdom comes with experience and age. Which, I learned earlier, is not necessarily the case. I know lots of grown ups who act like kids and who doesn't really have that much to show as far as life experience is concerned. And then there are also those who are still young in terms of age but they sure have the maturity of adults.

It is because of their experienced not really that they are expert for I am sure not but most the things is already part of their experienced.