As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
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We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.
We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.
At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.
In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.