Grown-upness

Just ordinary parents who think that what they are doing is "right" and continue to insist on their rightness, because they cannot modulate what is real to their "grown-upness" by accessing another part of themselves that knows what it is like.

My grown-upness was not such a shock.

Either of our own choosing or sometimes it is forced upon us, we lose our childish innocence and take on false “grown-upness.”