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Problem. While observing a child, a problem is noticed that the conception of a child is most frequently presented from adult’s position and may be characterised as single-sided and subjective. Research-based data on child’s attitude towards adults' world are hardly available.

The goal of the research: to reveal positive and negative aspects of child‘s attitude towards adults.

The methods of the research: analysis of theoretical literature sources, interview, collision situation, statistical methods, correlation analysis.

The sample of the research: 1000 parents, 402 children, 104 teachers.

Conclusions:

1. The research showed that more than one third of the children in the survey had experienced offence from adults of one or another kind. Almost one fifth of the children mentioned physical offence. The experienced offence reveals itself in a wide range of negative emotions in children’s memories.
2. The majority of children tend to rely on adult‘s authority in situations that are dangerous to life or health but the latter fail to ensure safe environment in all the cases, what would  guarantee elimination of experience of harmful habits from child’s life.

Recommendations: Contemporary pedagogy should learn from a child; therefore, each adult working with children has to react to all the signals received from them. Despite processes of modernisation, an adult remains the most important person in child’s life, who has to show positive examples of own behaviour and interpersonal relations.