Each of those items represent another step toward
self-sufficiency, becoming increasingly more independent as one grows
older.
As very young children, they are taught to help each
other and to ask for help from others when it is needed by being given clothing that
requires assistance - someone else has to button the jackets in the back. As children
grow older, their advancing age and ability to assume more responsibility for themselves
is symbolized by jackets that they can put on and button independently because the
buttons are in the front. Pockets in those jackets signify the beginning recognition
that they might have items to keep in their personal possession rather than depending on
someone else to keep their things.
Receiving their own bike
is the recognition that the child has achieved an age in which s/he is able to be
trusted to go places independently, to treat the bike responsibly, to ride safely, and
to accept duties that might involve needing transportation other than
walking.
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