The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.
Being a parent is amazing.
What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.
Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.
When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.