I see a lot of commentary, especially on Lemmy and Reddit, about how awful children are and how wonderful adulthood without kids is. And if you don’t want them, more power to you.
On the other hand, many people are parents and love having children! I want to hear some of the positive stories. What about being a parent makes your life better? What’s your favorite thing about your kids?
Do you remeber whe you were a teenager and you found your crowd and at wierd moments you all started to laught uncontrollably because of somthing not-so-funny-in-retrospect that no one in the word would understand? You never laughter like that since. It was painful it was amazing it was happiness… and love probably.
That’s the closest I can thinke off to what’s being a parent is like. It’s not it. But I don’t think it could be fully explained. It’s a transformative experience and there is no other way to experience it than being transformed.
Yes, its all those terrible thing you hear about. It is really hard. And its undoubtfully worth it.