What it’s like to have a child

Four years in

This is how you see your young child most of the time — right up close. Photo: Author.

Some thoughts —

• Raising children is a difficult and often unpleasant job in which we take enormous care and pride. This is because this job is a privilege — it’s like washing God’s feet.

• Children need love like we need air. To deprive children of love is to suffocate the…