The Veldt

"You know how difficult Peter is about that. When I punished him a month ago by locking the nursery for even a few hours - the tantrum be threw! And Wendy too. They live for the nursery."

"That's just it. I feel like I don't belong here. The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt? Can I give a
bath and scrub the children as efficiently or quickly as the automatic scrub bath can? I cannot. And it isn't just me. It's you. You've been awfully
nervous lately."

Perhaps they needed a little vacation from the fantasy which was growing a bit too real for ten-year-old children. It was all right to exercise one's mind with gymnastic fantasies, but when the lively child mind settled on one pattern... ?

Wendy and Peter have become disengaged from their parents. They live for the technology and rebel when they are unable to receive the instant gratification that comes from creating their own world on the walls of the nursery. Thei father gives into them.... and their mother feels useless.... as if she isn't even able to raise her own children.