Bittersweet and realistic episode about that point in life when you grow sick of Mom's overprotectiveness and have to push her away. It has to happen, and it has to hurt us all.
Of course, I totally get Kevin's mom's perspective, despite not being a parent myself. Unsupervised contact sports has to be a terrifying prospect, especially if your son is as small as Kevin Arnold is at this point. (Knowing what we know about CTE in the present day, you are genuinely unhinged if you let your kid play football in any capacity.)
I expected Kevin to relent and ask for his mom's help in bandaging his hand at the end of the episode, but that would be a bit too sappy and forced for a show like The Wonder Years. The reference to the difficulty of bandaging one-handed is a perfect metaphor.
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