Listening to your children interact with EACH OTHER when they don’t know you’re there, however, can have a somewhat different effect. Just heard my 9 year old daughter call her 5 year old sister (in a saccharine voice) “mummy’s precious disappointment”. 💀😂
A small parenting pleasure: seeing your kids in the wild when they don’t know you’re there and observing how they move and interact in the world as their independent selves. Always makes me burst with love and pride that I made those humans! What a miracle!