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.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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.
For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.
Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.
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.
You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.
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