When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.
One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.
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.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.