Fear

The famous cartoonist, Jules Pfeiffer, was discussing a cartoon strip he did for the newspapers. In it, a little boy didn’t want to go to school because he feared his parents would move away while he was gone. He didn’t want to go to bed at night because he feared his parents would die while he slept. Coping with these fears is a terrific battle for a child. “It’s like being on 24-hour guard duty,” Pfeiffer said. He also said he had received many letters about that cartoon from adults who told him, “That’s the way it is, all right. But you don’t have to be a child to feel it.”