“My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.”

Meaning

This reads as a parent trying to hold two feelings at once, tenderness in the present and hope for the future. The point is not the child’s smallness, but the ordinary wish that love, not pressure, should shape what comes next. It lands in any moment when someone is speaking honestly about parenting, and admits that care is really a hope for a child’s happiness, not control.

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Originally said in English.

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