"I love being with my children. They're fascinating people"
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There’s a quiet flex in Amy Grant calling her kids “fascinating people” instead of, say, “my whole world.” It sidesteps the sentimental script that often clings to celebrity parenthood and replaces it with something both warmer and more modern: respect. Grant frames her children not as extensions of her identity or props in a wholesome brand, but as full characters she actually enjoys spending time with. The affection is real, but it’s expressed through curiosity rather than saintly self-sacrifice.
That word “people” does a lot of work. It implies boundaries and agency. It suggests she isn’t just loving them because she’s supposed to; she’s interested in who they are becoming. In a culture that treats parenting as either a performance (Pinterest-perfect devotion) or a burden (comic misery), Grant’s line lands as a third option: companionship. Not “I endure it for love,” not “they complete me,” but “I like them.”
Context matters, too. Grant emerged as a major figure in contemporary Christian music, a space where public family life can be read as testimony. This phrasing is savvy: it keeps the virtue-signaling at arm’s length while still communicating a values-forward vision of home. It also reads like the perspective of someone whose life has been busy, public, and scheduled. Saying she loves being with her children subtly elevates presence as a choice, not an assumption, and makes that choice sound genuinely fun.
That word “people” does a lot of work. It implies boundaries and agency. It suggests she isn’t just loving them because she’s supposed to; she’s interested in who they are becoming. In a culture that treats parenting as either a performance (Pinterest-perfect devotion) or a burden (comic misery), Grant’s line lands as a third option: companionship. Not “I endure it for love,” not “they complete me,” but “I like them.”
Context matters, too. Grant emerged as a major figure in contemporary Christian music, a space where public family life can be read as testimony. This phrasing is savvy: it keeps the virtue-signaling at arm’s length while still communicating a values-forward vision of home. It also reads like the perspective of someone whose life has been busy, public, and scheduled. Saying she loves being with her children subtly elevates presence as a choice, not an assumption, and makes that choice sound genuinely fun.
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