For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.