If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.
I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.
Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.
If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word.
If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'
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