I'm very tired of people calling freshman "immature" my dad has given me some psychology books. One of them is "Games people play". It will change your perspective on everything. Not only will it change you, it will make you second guess the people you know and who they really are. I came across on how people perceive maturity and how "more mature" people act towards people "less mature." Who decides what is mature and what is not? Of course society does. If you laugh at something inappropriate they automatically say "you're immature." What does laughing have to do with maturity? What I find funny shouldn't judge whether I am mature or not. We all have maturity in us. Not even older adults are always mature. For example: Maturity is like a switch. We decide when to turn it on, and sometimes we don't realize we have turned it off. We can not be mature all the time.
Being mature has nothing to do with age. To be mature means to react in an appropriate way in certain situations. Maturity is learned through experiences. Everybody has been a freshman before or will become one. Freshman are young and still learning and trying to have those experiences. It's hard enough for freshman going through their awkward stages. Don't make it harder on 9th graders.
-Bitney freshman.
If you wanted to read the book "games people play"
The author is Eric Berne, M.D.
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