Thoughts
Adults have this idea that children don't understand responsibility; that they are fundamentally irresponsible. But I don't think that's
true. I think children are not as good at being responsible. I think it's immoral/unethical to give the pressure associated with responsibility to a child. And I think children very rarely have responsibility for those reasons. But I don't think that the child's mind has any more difficulty comprehending responsibility than an adults.
For example, a kindergarten teacher needs to leave the classroom for an hour. They leave one of the students in charge. Now lets say that one of the other children injures themselves.
* The cynic says that this kindergartner doesn't understand being responsible for a classroom, and that the child will not care. The child who is in charge will continue playing with their own toys with apathy towards the other students. I don't think this is true.
* When I say children are not good at being responsible, mean that the child who is in charge doesn't know first aid. Doesn't where the bandages are. Maybe they should have stopped the other child from playing with the scissors before they got injured, but they didn't have the foresight to see that playing with scissors has a high chance of leading to injury.
* It's unethical (and irresponsible) for the teacher to have left another kindergartner in charge of the classroom because if someone got injured, the kindergartner doesn't know first aid. That's not their own fault. And then if another child died or something the kindergartner shouldn't have to live with that on their conscious for the rest of their life.
* yeah rest of this post, I'm going to go lay down and stare at the ceiling, real concussion hours