When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
Interpretation
Having children changes how you view your own relationship with your parents.
This quote by Salman Rushdie emphasizes the transformative experience of parenthood, suggesting that becoming a parent allows individuals to gain a deeper understanding of their own parents' perspectives and challenges. It highlights the way new responsibilities and emotional connections can alter one's views on family dynamics and relationships.
In practice
During a parenting seminar, you might introduce this quote to illustrate the profound changes that come with raising children.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.
I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.
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