When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.
I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.
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.
I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.
You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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