Which isn't to say that the written routine is anything short of superb: in one of the best moments, he laments the difficulty of parenting his seven-year-old daughter, noting that "she's headed for a great life unless I fuck it up" — which he does, of course, accidentally teaching her that one day the universe, which includes all the things that she loves, will cease to exist.
The truth is, doing these things is hard because being a good parent is always hard, but the difficulty of parenting is separate from the difficulty of work.
During a dinner for the movie at the Soho House here, Ms. Swinton spoke about the film's tough subject matter and, as a mother of twins, offered some insight on what it says about the difficulties of parenting.
Adolescents who value "family and kinship" have fewer practical concerns about the costs and difficulties of parenting.
In her new book Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact, Not Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age, Yalda discusses the importance, though difficulty, of parents to stay up to speed with their children when it comes new and ever-changing technology.
By The New Yorker September 21, 2014 Michael Agger ponders the difficulties of parenting in the age of Minecraft.
There are times when the show comes perilously close to sentimentality, but the clarity of Christopher's gaze is so unflinching that it often makes you uncomfortable, and the show is equally clear-eyed on the difficulties of parenting, messiness of life, and torment of a child who cannot bear to be touched.
Stevenson compared her own difficulties of parenting to Marion's, saying "it is easier for me than someone like Marion because I have had 14 years experience".
When we normalize the challenges and difficulties of parenting, instead of pathologizing them as failures on our part, we're much more likely to give ourselves a break and, just possibly, reduce some of the stress around this hard, scary and... yes... amazing job.
For parents on an e-mail list where Ms. Brown solicited answers, the question underscored the difficulty in conveying the pleasure of parenting a child with Down syndrome to someone who has the option to reject it.
Perhaps aware that shock inevitably produces its own tedium, Eminem talks in the current issue of Rolling Stone about his eight-year-old daughter, Hailie, and the difficulty of co-parenting her with his ex-wife, Kim Mathers, who has attempted suicide and was jailed earlier this year for drug possession.
