if you add up the time (actual minutes) you feel you are a terrible parent compared to the time you spend being an amazing parent (which you are), you'll see the amazing is way more than the terrible.

It works with kids too - when they are going thru difficult stages. The amount of time they are more work compared to the amount of time they are the joys of your lives.

I think about it this way when I want to run away from my teenagers when they are not so easy to be around...maybe they think this way when I'm not so easy too...