When was the last time you saw something as simple as bubbles with the kind of enthusiasm and pure joy???All of this is day-to-day life with kids: their work is play, and they draw us into it and remind us that life is supposed to be fun. So all the Grumpy Guses complaining about the hardships of parenthood just aren’t listening to the message their kids are trying to tell them.“It Will Make You a Better Person.” This can be one of the hardest things about having kids, but it’s one that you will eventually appreciate. Being a parent requires you to work on some of the basic skills of being a good person, and to do it under pressure. It teaches you to remember your manners because whatever you do or say is going to be mirrored back to you by small people who copy everything. (It really teaches you to watch your language, unless you’re not disturbed hearing four-letter words coming out of a four-year-old mouth.) It teaches you how to hold your temper. It Teaches You to Focus on What Really Matters. How do you continue to have a job and raise kids? It helps to have a good support system—we don’t know what we would do without grandmas and grandpas—but the real answer is: you realize what’s important, and you cut out everything that isn’t. It’s easy to let your life get filled with a lot of makework projects, lame televisions shows, and all the flotsam and jetsam of popular culture. You cut most of that out, and you know what? You don’t really miss it.