condescension
There's no such thing as "too young to understand".
There is:
• "I find it hard to teach somebody who doesn't already get these fundamentals"; and
• "I can't explain this without being hurtful, and you don't have strong coping mechanisms for that"; and
• "Most people pick this up without being explicitly taught it, which you haven't yet".
None of these are to do with age. Being patronising and experienced doesn't give you the right to ignore or overrule others' concerns.
condescension
@wizzwizz4 I like this general approach, but I worry about actual cognitive limitations in sufficiently young children (even beyond the obvious ones like babies). I think the approach is almost surely valid for anyone above 12yo and I suspect the actual age is usually lower, but I'm not very confident in any of this.
