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.

1. Don’t Grow Up Injunction

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
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School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. 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.

4. 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”.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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