As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'
It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
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.
Having a child on the way changes your perspective. You want to do things that will make them proud of you.
It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.
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.
When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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