I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.
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.
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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.