dont grow up injunction

Don’t Grow Up Injunction

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Don’t Grow Up

It is often the youngest child

who gets a Don’t grow up

injunction. The parents, in

their Child ego state, may not

want to let go of having a

young kid around in the family.

They may define their whole

worth in terms of being a good

father or a good mother.

Don’t Grow Up

If their child grew up, they

would no longer feel

valuable. Alternatively, this

injunction may be given out

by parents who never grow

up themselves. Their

message is “Stay my little

playmate”.

Don’t Grow Up

Sometimes, Don’t grow

up is read as “Don’t leave

me”. The woman who

stays at home into her

middle age, caring for a

demanding aged mother,

may be carrying this

message.

Don’t Grow Up

Another variant of Don’t Grow

Up is “Don’t be sexy”. This is

often given by a father to his

daughter, at the stage of her

Childhood when she is old

enough to become noticeably

feminine.

Don’t Grow Up

In his Child, her father is sacred

of his own sexual response to

her. He puts out non verbal

messages of physical

distancing, which the little girl

may read as an injunction

against growing up and

becoming a sexual woman.

Thank You

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