This is a short YouTube interview clip (uploaded May 11, 2024 by James Laughlin) featuring Chris Hipkins reflecting on fatherhood. Hipkins says the best part of being a dad is seeing life through a child's fresh perspective, which counteracts adult cynicism and provides a refreshing, inquisitive view of the world.
What's the best part about being a dad? Best part about being a dad? You get to look at life through the eyes of someone new to the world. And so you get to see things with a whole different perspective than if you were just looking at them as an adult. I think we do sometimes become more cynical as we get older. Whereas when you become a dad and you're looking at the world through the eyes of a baby and you're thinking, what are they thinking? What are they seeing? How are they interpreting this? It just gives you a really refreshing view on life.
