Parents, are you proud of your child/children?

[Ulfreida]

@you_with_the_face

People tend to biased towards anything they create. So why would parents be different?

Have you never produced something that involved a lot of hard work, stress, and personal inconvenience, and you ended up being really proud of that something? Maybe you painted your home, started a vegetable garden, or published a piece of writing. Were you not proud of what you created?

Raising kids is difficult, especially if you’re trying your best to do it right. When that hard work pays off in the form of a well-adjusted person who contributes to society, then it is quite reasonable to take pride in that.

Do you disagree with this?

I never have had the slightest feeling that my child was “my creation”. As if she was a novel I wrote, or a table I refinished or something. Very weird idea. I am proud of my daughter because she’s a great human being and she’s a member of my family. I’m also proud of my husband, my dad, and other people whose existence I had no physical part in.