I hear all the time on TV and in the movies that kids are resilient. Question is: why should they have to be?
Maybe this is what should happen before anyone becomes a parent—I (insert name) agree that when I become a parent, I therefore understand that my children’s needs come first. That for at least eighteen years, it’s not about me. It’s about them.
Doesn’t seem that complicated, right? Not when you look at eighteen years in the grand scheme of a hundred. But adults don’t do that. They like to play dress-up with their kid for a year or two, maybe be excited when they play a sport or land the role in the school play, but then after the hour is up and the pictures are taken for the sake of “making a memory,” they declare that they need to find themselves when they figure out kids are hard.
Adults see children as toys or a solution to a problem,instead of a hard commitment.