I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you.
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.
There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.
When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.
I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.