Did you raise you children consciously thinking about them becoming eventually becoming adults?

I did. It was hard to imagine them as anything but what they were when they were little, but I made myself.

A good example of what I mean is that video of that little girl trying to get her seat belt on that someone posted. I wouldn’t have let that slide if it were my child, no matter how cute it was, because I would be thinking “Do I want her saying things like that as an adult?”

So often I see kids doing “cute” things that wouldn’t be “cute” if they were 16, but the parents just laugh it away.