Tuesday, September 22, 2009

On Life with Kids

At some point in your life, you will leave your parents and go live by your own. Life is never going to be the same after that.

At another point in your life, you'll have kids of your own. Life, also, is not going to be the same after that.

There is the time between these two points where you think you are free. What you're actually doing is preparing yourself to have kids.

But you realize that after you have kids.

It's always the right time to unlearn the things that people are teaching you, so that you can learn them for yourself.
When you have kids, this is doubly important: You want to teach them your values, not your parent's. The values that you've figured out for yourself. What you are teaching them then is not the values, but how to live so that they can come up with their own.

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