Responsible parents should make it their primary goal in life to develop their children into productive caring and happy members of society. Any personal goals that had not been achieved or were not well along when the children were born should be put on the back burner or at least de-prioritised. Where there are children their interests must come first. Whatever you have not achieved by the time you have children you must put on hold until they have been reared. if you do not you will risk raising a person who will destroy all that you create. However;...
that are perhaps insensitive to their feelings, Children are not so aware and therefore parents need to know what and how different things affect their children and care for them accordingly. It is true that children will eventually learn these lessons for themselves but as long as parents can teach them from second hand experience their children will grow up with less emotional damage and be more productive and happy individuals. Learning first hand almost always leads people to emotional damage that even in the best scenario takes time to repair often at the cost of their own children.