Lack of Concentration

Children in a state of stress find it difficult to concentrate on their studies.  Their heads are full of thoughts on the traumatic divorce experience. A thought-filled head is presented in the “flies episode” while he is in the middle of playing basketball, the flies being a metaphor for the disturbing thoughts. The positive thinking feather helps to free himself of these thoughts.

 

Attitude to Money

Money symbolizes power, control and security but also, a means of survival.  All the elements represented by money are the reason that money is one of the most important reasons for quarrels between parents after divorce. Divorce leaves many families below the poverty line and at best the economic means are cut in two. The game provides a number of figures that worship money in an exaggerated and caricature-like way. However, the main problem is that the king and queen have lost their money and are forced to work as salespeople at stands in the fair, even selling some of their own personal belongings.

 

The Upset Balance  

In every family there is some sort of balance, a sense of something whole. In divorce   there is a sense of disruption, of something whole breaking, of balance upset. In this situation a vacuum is created and one of the children will tend to take on the role of one of the parents and become a Parental child.  In the boat race episode, it turns out that there are less people on the boat than planned causing the moose to cry out: But now there’re only THREE of us left!

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