Peter Pan Syndrome: “Puer Aeternus is Latin for eternal child, used in mythology to designate a child-god who is forever young; psychologically it refers to an older man whose emotional life has remained at an adolescent level, usually coupled with too great a dependence on the mother. The puer typically leads a provisional life, due to the fear of being caught in a situation from which it might not be possible to escape. He covets independence and freedom, chafes at boundaries and limits, and tends to find any restriction intolerable.”
As you study and deal with children you come to understand their behavior, you try to see the world trough their little eyes and open minds, it’s a beautiful, innocent and colorful world that we’ve all seen someday. As you watch them grow up, you can still see faces and traces of what they were as a little child, some were gone and some will probably be in them forever. It was proven that the first four years in a child’s life is where they build their personality and values, everything they taste, touch and experience will be with them for the rest of their lives, even if they cannot remember, it’s there and it makes a huge difference.
Most of us here heard about Peter Pan, the boy that never wanted to grow up, so he ran away from home and found Neverland where he could always be whoever he wanted to be, it’s one of my very favorite books, that being said I very much relate to this book, I didn’t want to grow up, I loved being a kid and everything about my childhood, even the smell of it bring me nostalgia. Well I got over this feeling; I had to grow up, to face the world and whatever it brings me. But I often find myself thinking back and smiling, I can’t let go.
As for now, being a so called grown up sucks in many ways, having to figure out life is as scary as anything, not knowing what is going to happen, as exciting as can be, is also frightening, as bold as you can be in this life I believe everyone still needs a hug, a pat on their back, and someone to tell them “it’s going to be okay, tomorrow is another day, just go to sleep now”. And when we understand that there’s still a lot of the kid that we were, inside all of us, we will then begin to see the world in a simpler way again and accept our down sides, and just be whoever we are.
That is, until we each find our neverland.
As you study and deal with children you come to understand their behavior, you try to see the world trough their little eyes and open minds, it’s a beautiful, innocent and colorful world that we’ve all seen someday. As you watch them grow up, you can still see faces and traces of what they were as a little child, some were gone and some will probably be in them forever. It was proven that the first four years in a child’s life is where they build their personality and values, everything they taste, touch and experience will be with them for the rest of their lives, even if they cannot remember, it’s there and it makes a huge difference.
Most of us here heard about Peter Pan, the boy that never wanted to grow up, so he ran away from home and found Neverland where he could always be whoever he wanted to be, it’s one of my very favorite books, that being said I very much relate to this book, I didn’t want to grow up, I loved being a kid and everything about my childhood, even the smell of it bring me nostalgia. Well I got over this feeling; I had to grow up, to face the world and whatever it brings me. But I often find myself thinking back and smiling, I can’t let go.
As for now, being a so called grown up sucks in many ways, having to figure out life is as scary as anything, not knowing what is going to happen, as exciting as can be, is also frightening, as bold as you can be in this life I believe everyone still needs a hug, a pat on their back, and someone to tell them “it’s going to be okay, tomorrow is another day, just go to sleep now”. And when we understand that there’s still a lot of the kid that we were, inside all of us, we will then begin to see the world in a simpler way again and accept our down sides, and just be whoever we are.
That is, until we each find our neverland.
