He tells Wendy that he was once like them; he flew to Neverland thinking that his mother would always leave the window open. “Long ago,” he said, “I thought like you that my mother would always keep the window open for me; so I stayed away for moons and moons and moons, and then I came back; but the window was barred, because my mother had completely forgotten about me, and there was another child sleeping in my bed. The closed window here represents irresponsibility and lack of care on the part of the parents. To grow and mature you need guidance from your parents and since his mother closed the window, he never had it