Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.
Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.
I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.