On whose side?
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Here is a list of kids whom you may find familiar from your experience so far in the field of child and youth care:

attention-seeking
moody
lazy
impulsive
pushy
noisy
acquisitive
aggressive
self-righteous
voluble

Here is another list of kids whom you may also recognise from your practice:

rejected
sad
unmotivated
frustrated
excluded
unlistened to
deprived
physically abused
blamed
ignored

Actually, if you place the second list alongside the first list, you will find that there are not two lists here, but one. The kids are the same; only the words used to describe them are different. The first list is from the viewpoint of irritated and tired adults; the second is a group of unhappy kids.

We're on the side of the kids.