grown-ups
No longer children
Grown-ups are adults, used especially by or when speaking to children: The grown-ups are talking.
The term frames adulthood from a child's perspective—those mysterious beings who make the rules, stay up late, and supposedly know what they're doing.
Adults sometimes use it ironically to describe mature behavior they find lacking: Can we please act like grown-ups here?
Mother and father
- guardiansThose who protect others
- eldersSenior community members
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
discipline · permission · boundaries · guidance · instructions · decisions · control · oversight
State of being answerable
- independenceFreedom from external control
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- employmentPaid occupation status
- maturityFull growth achieved
professionalism · bills · mortgage · taxes · insurance · budgeting · salary · workforce
Failing to engage interest
- seriousWeighty and requiring attention
- tallOf considerable height
- oldExisting many years
- workEffort toward a goal
money · coffee · newspapers · meetings · driving · cooking · cleaning · chores
Supportive care-giving
- childrearingRaising and nurturing offspring
- motherhoodState of being a female parent
- fatherhoodState of being dad
- caregivingAttending to dependents
diapers · bedtime · school · homework · discipline · guidance · custody · pediatrics
parents
Mother and father
- guardiansThose who protect others
- eldersSenior community members
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
rules · discipline · permission · boundaries · guidance · instructions · decisions · control · oversight · enforcement
responsibility
State of being answerable
- independenceFreedom from external control
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
- employmentPaid occupation status
maturity · professionalism · bills · mortgage · taxes · insurance · budgeting · salary · workforce · colleagues
boring
Failing to engage interest
work · money · coffee · newspapers · meetings · driving · cooking · cleaning · chores · bedtime
nurturing
Supportive care-giving
- childrearingRaising and nurturing offspring
- motherhoodState of being a female parent
- fatherhoodState of being dad
caregiving · diapers · bedtime · school · homework · discipline · guidance · custody · pediatrics · babysitter
- peoplepeople, persons, person, individuals, humans
- adultsadult, adults, mature, young adult, young adults
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- age groupsage groups, generations, life stages, adults, children
- Saint-ExuperyThe Little Prince, Little Prince, aviator, fox, rose
grown-upschildren
Young human beings
kids · little ones · youngsters · little kids · small children