I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
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.
Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.
Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.