I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I can then think through how I can make them as healthy as possible.
I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.
Because I'm an older mom, I have a responsibility to my kids as well as myself. I want to be there for them.
In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the sooner we all got off the planet, the better.
I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.
I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.
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