J.M. Barrie opens his 1911 novel, Peter and Wendy, with “All children, except one, grow up.” ...
Growing up is scary. There's no manual for handling your first heartbreak, no guidebook for feeling like an outsider, and definitely no instruction sheet for when your whole world seems to be falling ...
Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph.D. Why might an adolescent seem reluctant to grow up at the extremities of adolescence? It’s complicated. How fast to grow up or not to grow up, that is often the question.