The influence of adult figures in a child's life is very important. If you look at all the kids that grew up to be alcoholics and drug addicts: Most of them grew up in a poor family situation; divorced parents, abusive parents, neglectful parents, and many more. All those points I listed lead back to one factor: The parents. In the book Peter Pan by James M. Barrie, Peter Pan doesn't want to grow up because he has poor adult influence in his life.
In Jordan Peterson’s Metanarrative about the story of Peter Pan, he has a point and explains that Peter has no good adult influences in his life, which is a result in him not wanting to grow up. The only adult he could look up to is Captain Hook who's a miserable Pirate and terrorizes people. Jordan Peterson says: “Time has already got a piece of you. And it's got a taste for you. And it's eventually going to eat you.'' What this means is that you can't escape time. He says this because Hook is constantly being terrorized and chased by a crocodile that
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He's basically saying that people need to grow up one day, using Peter Pan as an example. In my opinion, kids shouldn't grow up too fast; every child needs the childhood experience in their life in order to grow up to be an adult. Jordan peterson seems to think that kids should grow up a lot faster that they should. Jordan says: “ you have to sacrifice the pure potentiality of childhood for the actuality of a frame. And the question is ‘well why would you do that?’ well one reason is it happens to you whether you do it or not. You can either choose your limitation or you can let it take you unaware."He's saying this because the later you realize you need to grow up and be mature, the worse off you are. So if you mature earlier you won't be hit with the sudden realization that you need to be mature later in life. All this being said, Peter doesn't have a proper adult in his life to teach him these key things in