Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1920 — DISLIKE SONS TO GROW UP [ARTICLE]

DISLIKE SONS TO GROW UP

Few Mothers Welcome the Time When Their Boys Go Out Into the Hard World. Almost every mother keeps her boy in “knee pants” just as long as she can; she hates to see him becoming a man, for. she feels that he is getting away from her. A mother sees only with reluctance the boy pass from the love and care and peace with which she has surrounded him, out into the world of pitiless endeavor in which he must play his part The mother’s selfish fondness discloses itelf in the ludicrous child's garment and the wornout, home-bred horse with which she sends forth the would-be knight These are to the modern analytical mind painfully symbolic of the unconscious Interference on the part of parents with the proper adult equipment of their children for an independent life. Their apparent fondness conceals the unconscious wish that the child will find himself unequipped for the greater world and compelled to turn back to the shelter. —New York Medical Journal.