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.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.
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