You ever watch that movie Good Will Hunting and there’s that scene where Robin Williams is talking to Matt Damon next to the lake about how you can read everything and become an expert about everything in books? Like Matt Damon can tell you everything about the Sistine Chapel, the history of it and whatever else. Robin Williams follows up that it’s a completely different experience having actually been there, the smells and the general awe of experiencing it in person.
Everyone is entitled to their spirited opinions and advice, parent or not, but you’ll lack some mutual understanding or connection of a real lived experience to someone that is a parent until you actually become a parent yourself.
Everyone is entitled to their spirited opinions and advice, parent or not, but you’ll lack some mutual understanding or connection of a real lived experience to someone that is a parent until you actually become a parent yourself.