I have a question. Why do people get so upset when their children are no longer "babies"? Why would you want a baby forever? Isn't the whole point of taking care of babies properly so they can grow into children, and then into adults?
I think I must be missing something fairly obvious here. Is it because the child obviously growing means the parent is getting older? Or is it just because, while I loved my children as babies, they were so very, very demanding that I was delighted when they could start to do things for themselves?