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[xp_jubilee]

So, did I miss something? Have teenager vs adult lines been drawn?

I'm pretty sure the Prof. is doing his 'letting people do their thing' non-interference thing he does but seriously.

When I came here I was one of the worst, most horrible brats you've ever encountered. If it weren't for the adults and a whole mess of help and forgiveness I'd be dead.

We don't gotta be all lovey but like, having kids feel like they're ignored or not wanted is a total power keg of bad decisions waiting to happen.

We gotta find a way to live here and with them without goin' mad, right?

Anyone got any thoughts?

Comments

[xp-angel.livejournal.com]

I love everyone.

Everyone doesn't love me.

That being said -- I have no real comment. I'm myself at almost all times. Sure, I'm highly inappropriate, and I should probably walk around with a disclaimer, but kids don't bother me. They're amusing, with their emotions and acne.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

People not love you? Say it ain't so. Maybe we could designate an adult only zone or something? So you can get your naked on without someone callin' the cops?

[xp-angel.livejournal.com]

I put up a sign. Everyone here is old enough to read.

I'm so misunderstood

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

I agree. It's uncool. It's awkward though, at least for me being a non-teachery type but older and stuff. ugh. I don't feel older.

if you were a horrible brat, what was I? ....don't answer that.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

We weren't like, totally birds of a feather, glitterbomb.

Remind me to pay you to take me to my next assignment though. Planes are useful but totes exhausting.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

we both got into our fair share of trouble, even if we didn't do it together.

lol, planes suck.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Many of them have already been shut out before they came here and ostracized. Doing the same doesn't help. I think doing more activities with them and trying to talk to them on their level might be good. A lot of things have happened at once recently and tensions are high. A way to diffuse the tension would be nice...like perhaps some sort of event everyone can participate in?

I mean...I'm not a teacher, but I can understand what they're going through. It makes them not want to trust us when something goes wrong.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

At least it's not gonna be called a field trip. We're training them, aren't we? Maybe some kind of joint field exercise.

Show them what we can do with their help. It's a bit hard world wide right now but there's places a few well placed humanitarian missions couldn't hurt.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

I don't know....it seems to me that some of them are a little too new to this to be going off on a humanitarian mission especially with the current state of the world.

But a joint exercise might be good to start off with, something where we can show them that we do trust them and vice versa.

Or even just, getting to know them better. Talking with them one on one, making a friend.

[xp-angel.livejournal.com]

I feel there should be a pinata. Pinatas bring everyone together. Kids get candy, adults get candy...what a beautiful, bonding moment.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

Do you really wanna give them sticks and tell them to beat the feathery multi-colored thing?

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

People who want to be mentors and family members to the kids here, feel free. Good for you.

I, for one, do not. Been there, done that. Done the teacher thing. Been burned too many times, mainly by the vast majority of my students dying. I want nothing to do with these kids and I should feel like I have the option to NOT engage with them, particularly when they're calling me rude in my own journal, if I so choose.

Last I heard, this place was basically a boarding house to keep mutants safe. I signed no contract to be responsible for or mentor teenagers when I moved in here. Forcing adults into positions of authority and responsibility over kids when they don't wish to get close to them is not going to work well for anyone involved.

But if the stipulations of my living here are changing and I'm going to be forced to act like I want kids involved in my life when I don't, bring it on. I've got a penthouse I can go live at instead.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

Simmer down, Adri. No one here is gonna force you to interact with the kids. Not like I didn't lose some pretty damn important people myself.

I get the need for distance, believe me.

Other then moving to your penthouse - what would you prefer? Third level seems to be adults these days - we could make it an official no kid zone?

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Good to know, because that's how your thing comes across. But I'm also pissy because the Sox lost to Kane's Jays so I may be reading more into it than you intended.

Don't make anything official on my count. Kids don't come near my rooms anyway. I see kids anywhere near my rooms and I start playing Garrison's weepy Canadian break-up music. That always sends them running for the hills.

[xp-northstar.livejournal.com]

I am amused. I am an adult, oui? So I see this. Also, the conversation that they are having for Generation X members because I am that, as well. C'est la vie.

Do not force anyone to do anything. Hurt feelings will mellow and becoming very upset is pointless. Besides which, Google is a useful tool and if the Brazilian has not found it yet, it is good someone pointed her toward it.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

You are my favourite. (See, I even spelled it the Canadian way for you!)

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

So, does that make you a kidult? :D

[xp-angel.livejournal.com]

I like how you think, Frost.

Kids (although I absolutely don't want any) are much more interesting when you have no biological link to them.

[x-hawkeye.livejournal.com]

I mean, sticking a bunch of people of varying ages in one place is gonna cause some weird interaction, which is - y'know, whatever it is. But speaking from recent experience, I'm not trained to deal with kids. Expecting me to intuit how to handle them (when they're not actively attempting to injure themselves through pure stupidity, which seems to be Quentin's MO lately, someone not me should really look into his issues and coping mechanisms, fuck how do I get myself into these situations, Jesus) is kind of unrealistic.

Anyway, I'm with Adrienne on this. Tutoring's fine, cause math and science are awesome, but it's weird having fourteen year olds show up to what's otherwise and all-adult movie night at 11p. Also weird: having 14 year olds text you nonstop for a week. Weird and uncomfortable. I'm just saying.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

You probably don't wanna know what I was going through at 14, dude.

Which one is Quire? I mean, Haller's still here ain't he?

Also, Hi. Jubilation Lee. I think we've talked but I'm blanking?

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yeah, that definitely seems inappropriate. Dude, how did a fourteen year-old even get your number?

[x-barrier.livejournal.com]

But you were being rude.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm rude. It's what I do. How long have you known me? Would you like to see how much more rude I can be if you keep trying to be the kindness police, Cecilia?

[x-dagger.livejournal.com]

As I am currently in England at the moment and have been busy these past few weeks, I did not really notice it until know.

It does seem that some adults don't want to be the whole mentor thing. However, that seems to be impossible given the circumstances.

Kids will look up to adults even if the adults don't want them too. Sorry, that comes with the territory of living so close together. Also, these kids are mostly likely struggling on their own and to feel like they are unwanted is probably worse.

If Adults want to do their own thing, good for them they should. But don't make the kids feel unwanted, that could only led to bad things. I should know, I had a mother who didn't give two shits about me and I ran away.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Kids ARE unwanted by some of us and pretending otherwise is unfair to all involved. You want to be a mentor feel free. I want to be left alone. And no one is going to force me to do otherwise. Especially you.