I f****** hate that I have to yell at my kids. I’m enrolled in a PhD program with three small children. Even when I have help with them, I feel horrible for not giving them my hundred percent. I get angry when I can’t work fast enough. I feel people are jerks for expecting so much from one person. I feel guilty for raising them on ipads, tv, hired nannies and my inabilities.
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Hopefully your PhD is in an income producing field and thus will provide benefits to them after you complete it. Life is often a tradeoff unless you are born into a wealthy family.
People are indeed jerks and a source of constant disappointment. The electronics are not good for kids, maybe you can offset that by finding a program that teaches them something practical. Then they can take classes in lots of tangible stuff (how to: play guitar, outline a sentence, write a short story, ride a bicycle, swim, use a saw, brew a cup of tea). The most important practical skills are ones that were removed from the schools back in the 1950’s (deductive reasoning, problem solving, analytical thinking, law).
You are an advanced thinker dealing with mundane, banal situations brought on by unbridled breeding. A least you’re an example, a bad example.