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8th March 2010

Quote reblogged from psychology notes. with 177 notes

I’ve had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling. Our love for children is so unlike any other human emotion. I fell in love with my babies so quickly and profoundly, almost completely independently of their particular qualities. And yet 20 years later I was (more or less) happy to see them go – I had to be happy to see them go. We are totally devoted to them when they are little and yet the most we can expect in return when they grow up is that they regard us with bemused and tolerant affection. We are ambitious for them, we want them to thrive so badly. And yet we know that we have to grant them the autonomy to make their own mistakes. In no other human relation do we work so hard to accomplish such an ill-defined goal, which is precisely to create a being who will have goals that are not like ours.

Alison Gopnik (via psychotherapy)

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In Retrospect, as I get older I learn to appreciate my parents more and more. They don’t owe me anything, and it’s a shame how 15 years ago, I would think otherwise. If anything, It is ME who owes them the world, for they have given me the greatest gift. And my appreciation for them continues to grow, because I know, they wouldn’t expect me to give them the world (though it would be nice if I could)………give thanks….live, learn.

  ~Me.

Source: psychotherapy

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