Mother’s milk is a character in the superhero genre series called “The Boys” on Amazon Prime Video. It is a formidable story and is Highly Recommended. To be short, it gives you a lot to think about, but this isn’t an analysis of a superhero. This, instead, is an analysis of the character’s name, “Mother’s Milk.”

To do this, we will explore a story about a young man named Ian and conventional wisdom on parenting. Many grow up hearing about spoiled children. Spoiling is the act of turning the child into an “entitled brat” by fulfilling their every wish and desire. Even Ian adopted the belief for a brief period of time.

Looking back at his life, he made a shocking discovery. One day, he realized that despite his belief, he was in fact entitled brat. For the most part, he had just about everything he wanted growing up. While his family was not wealthy. His mom was a single mother of two at the time. However, when he expressed the desire to own the original Xbox when it was announced in May of 2013, his mother told him “No son, not now.” He didn’t understand why he couldn’t have it, but he just said “ok” and move forward. Ultimately, it did not matter since he had one a few months later. He never once considered or questioned how it got there. He just knew that on his following birthday, there was one at the foot of his bed when his mother woke him up that morning.

Ian remembered what happened next even better. He could never forget it. How could he when it hurt so much? To describe how it felt to him, reflect on the movie “300” when King Leonidas (played by Gerard Butler) kicked the Persian messenger into the pit. To him, it felt like his mother had kicked him in the chest like that, and to make matters worse, he managed to survive the fall, and then she jumped down to finish him with a spear through the heart. What did she do?

Earlier in the school year, he was forced to stop playing football, because he was letting his grades suffer. Now on his birthday, the day that is supposed to be the best one of the year, He was told that he could not open the console until Christmas. Ian was born in October.

Your younger self would see that as devastating, right?

It is not. It’s not a big deal that this kid can’t open his Xbox. There are bigger problems in the world. Some kids are being sent off to be soldiers. Some are being forced to work in mines. Some are on the brink of death due to starvation, but we’re supposed to feel empathy for this brat with poor grades?

When exploring further details, paints a different image of Ian. He was raised as the only child in his household for most of his life, and in his mind, it was like he was the only child in the universe. Outside of the home, he still received a lot of attention. He played sports. He was often called on to answer questions at school and managed to do it well enough to receive praise, despite his grades. He would also be singled out by the teachers for being disruptive to his classes.

In his mind, the world revolved around him. In the mind of someone like that, anything that does not go his or her way is a “big deal.” Ian was devastated, but he did not object because fortunately, he understood that this was his own doing. The time between his birthday and Christmas was challenging, but he managed to make it. His mother made it clear to Ian that she worked very hard to get him that gift, and she made sure he knew why he was being punished. It didn’t occur to him at the time, but Ian learned some valuable lessons that day.

In this instance, even though Ian got what he wanted as usual, he learned something from the experience. He learned what it felt like to have something you wanted badly and lose it. There are many types of losses. In objective reality, some are worse than others, but in subjective reality, the one we all experience, pain is pain. It does not matter what causes it.

Later in life, Ian would leave his home, but he still had a firm hold of mother’s teat. Whenever he found himself in trouble, he could always rely on Mother’s love and dedication to her only son.

Exodus 3:17 of the Holy Bible says, “I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”

That is exactly what she did for her boy, Ian, whenever he was in trouble. She pulled him from the deepest depths of depression, despair, sorrow, demotivation, and hopelessness, and brought him to the land of milk and honey, Mother’s Milk. She protects her baby and shelters him from the storms.

Until he is completely weened from his mother, he will not grow. When he is finally backed into a corner where he has no choice but to fend for him self, the sheer pressure and flames of the hell he has created for himself will either forge him into steel or burn him.

Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Milk-And-Honey