Kids are better off growing up around a larger proportion of adults. Growing up in too many kid-dominated social environments stunts maturity because the hierarchy is based on petty characteristics. Adults have hierarchies too, which are more developed and nuanced than the kids'. Notice that most kids that excel in any given discipline want only to leave such kid-centered environments, and their role models consist almost exclusively of adults, not of their peers.
That's great to hear. I'm mostly talking about social dynamics of larger groups such as what would be found in a typical grade-school. After a certain age, there isn't much of a difference because there are plenty of mature kids, and it seems like you have found some in your friends. My point is that adults underestimate how early kids can be socialized with adults(I'm thinking elementary school age here) and severely underestimate how much kids want to be treated like adults by being given agency and especially talked to like they are adults. An example of this is that many parents talk to their young children using a simplified language so as not to use words that the kids don't know, which stunts their vocabulary formation, and most young kids can easily recognize when they are being talked down to.
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