I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
I was not prepared to live as a single parent.
The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
Even as a child, I found a way to survive.