When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
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Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?
Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.
I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.
I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.
Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
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