Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.
Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.