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It’s fun. You get to re-experience things you did as a child.

What if the things you liked doing as a child are things you do now as an adult? When I look back on my happiest times as a child they were playing with my dog, reading, baking, traveling and going to plays. I can do all those things now.[/quote]

NP who feels the same way. For me, it's not so much the doing of those things, it's experiencing them again through a child's eyes -- the newness, discovery, and enthusiasm for life. It's the joy of sharing those loves with a new person you love dearly. It's being reintroduced to things you may no longer have an interest in and remembering how fun they were, or being introduced to new things based on your child's inclinations. In the past year, I've had great fun playing in kid/parent kickball games, attempting a back dive again for the first time in 20 years, catching minnows, designing new board games, attempting to double dutch jump rope, inventing and making crazy ice cream flavors, and creating obstacle courses for our dog. None of those are things I probably would have found myself doing without kids, but they all brought great joy. And then there was the joy of taking my kids backpacking for the first time, teaching them to build and cook over a fire, listening to the night sounds and looking at the stars. Those are things I can appreciate doing on my own, but experiencing them through my children's eyes is like discovering them for the first time all over again. This is not to mention the unique joy of watching them grow and develop into kind, interesting people, or the sense of love and well-being I derive from our close little family unit. That's not to say you can't get the later from friends and extended family, but those relationships are typically strongest within a nuclear family, and for most people are very meaningful.[/quote]

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