Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
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.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless.
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.
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
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