At the beginning of the book Peter Pan, Wendy had to tell Peter what a mother is. Peter and the lost boys said they have never had a mother before. I think how they understood a mother to be, is a lady or a girl like Wendy, who tells stories and looks after them. The lost boys keep asking Wendy to be their mother because in Neverland it is just them and they don’t know any stories to tell each other, so that is why they choose Wendy, she has heard and told many stories. I think the lost boys don’t fully understand what a mother is. They don’t know that a mother is a woman who raises a child and takes care of them until they can go on their own. They basically just think a mother is just a woman/girl who tells stories. Since Peter will never grow up, I believe he will never really know what a mother is. If the lost boys really knew how special it really is to have a mother, I think they would change their minds about growing up because a mother or a father is the best person to teach you how to become responsible, and respectable, and, most importantly, they teach you how to love everyone.