parenting - the beginnings of perspective

[jcarwen]

About a week ago I spent some time looking through pictures of Sagan on flickr from the beginning til now. It was a powerful experience because it really brought home how far we've come and how amazing the ride has been - and also how fucking hard it was in the beginning. There was so much joy and awe, but the work was constant and I was constantly

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[arovd]

two thoughts:
1) the world needs more men raised right. good job doing your part! :)

2) from a social responsibility perspective, I have the exact opposite perspective. intelligent, educated, socially responsible people NEED to have more kids.

[jcarwen]

Arovd, I do hear you. Ben and I met the most amazing little 5-year-old girl at a coffeeshop Sunday. She came right up to Sagan and said "he can play with my cat" (stuffed felix toy), and just hung out with us talking. Eventually her parents joined us. We had such a good time talking to her and were so impressed at how poised and confident and smart and funny she was. Afterwards Ben said, "if we could just snap our fingers and have a little girl like that tomorrow..." Which of course I jumped all over and he quickly wished he hadn't said anything. My point simply being that as we see how awesome Sagan is becoming and meet other children that have been raised to be kind and open-minded, etc., it's easy to start feeling like we should make as many babies as we can. But we'll probably leave that to you and Tara - you're off to quite an impressive start