Really appreciate your post! I'm a dad who also takes an active role in raising and nurturing his kids. I agree with your point at the end about responsibility, but another way of looking at the author's reframing of "parenting" as "childing" is that the parent is also on the receiving end of the experience. As a parent I've found I've learned a tremendous amount of patience, humility, perspective, perseverance, and self-awareness from the role, so I found a lot of truth in that idea.