Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.
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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.
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
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.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
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 the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.
Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.
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