I’ve found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.
–Jill Hennessy (b. 1968)
What you experienced yourself as a child…
Wonderfully expressed!
I think so too π
-David
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i find it easier to be creative now that I’m a parent of 3 kids — when they’re asleep.
Well, yes, there is that π
-David
Oh, very much! But I feel we were more obedient children. Too nice. π
I was quiet but broke the rules in sneaky ways, which often got me into trouble…
i’m soooo waiting for those words… I said ” I don’t care if you have any but if you want me to baby sit… ya better hurry up… otherwise i go with the flow. and i think it would grow them up in a different way. π
so true.
That’s interesting. Working full time and raising children and keeping the apartment in a minimum of working order left me with no time to think about anything else at all. (K)
Were you raising them alone, Kerfe?
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David
Not at all. Their father was always involved with raising them and I had a solid group of women friends–we did all kinds of things to help each other out. I’m still good friends with most of them even though our children are all grown. My older daughter is still best friends with her best preschool friend–she is really like my 3rd daughter she spent so much time at our house. She’s good fiends with my younger daughter too.
True, true, true… seeing my daughters be creative opened up a creativity in me that I had put away for too many years.
π Dave π
I can relate to this quote. Remembering how I felt as a child helps me to understand my own children more . . . and the experience of being a mother brings home to me just how much I put my parents through!
π Lesley π
Reblogged this on Ken Hume and commented:
I can most definitely relate to this! π A lot of my best & most satisfying material has come as a result of my observations of & interactions with my 2 girls in the past 4 years! It’s made me look at myself when I was their age and the differences between kids now and then. And also reminded me of the childlike joy and innocence and curiosity of that time in our lives! ππ
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I can most definitely relate to this David! π A lot of my best & most satisfying material has come as a result of my observations of & interactions with my 2 girls in the past 4 years! It’s made me look at myself when I was their age and the differences between kids now and then. And also reminded me of the childlike joy and innocence and curiosity of that time in our lives! ππ
π Ken π
Yes,….well I do have a joke regarding parenting and Insanity,it’s inherited from children. I am sure my mother experienced it.
π Andrew π
Yes, and I had to apologized more than once to my parents on what I had put them through. Sometimes I think this is the reason I have children, the true circle of life. Very cool!. β€
π TrΓ’m π
Having children/ becoming a parent β¦
Because when a child is born, a parent is born too.
Greatest virtue. Makes one aware of everything.
Makes you humble. Softens you. Perks up your senses.
Itβs like βflying solo for the first timeβ continuously.
You also spend like β19 years burning the midnight oilβ
But you donβt know how to do it differently for them.
You love life more.
Thanks for this post.
π Only 19, Selma? π
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Jill is one of my favourite actresses by the way π What we found is we rediscovered the magic of key celebrations or events with our children (who are young adults now). For example, before our eldest came along, Christmas Day for us had become a piece of toast and Vegemite in the morning (that’s what good Aussies do π€£) and we would look at each other and sigh and say now we have to visit our families, which as a lot of people know, is non-stop racing here and there. Not that we don’t love our families, because we do, it is just so much stress during this time and you just want to be at home. Once our kids came along, we got to do things more our way and rediscover the magic of it all.
Sean, I am so with you on this – my daughter is the primary reason that I maintain any degree of Jewish tradition!
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David
I think thatβs awesome, David π