Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.
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For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
When you become a parent, that's a whole new level of life intruding. Nobody tells you how boring and time-sucking it's going to be! Or how the responsibility feels like an airbag going off in your life.
Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.
Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.
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.
Being a parent is amazing.