In not particular order I would change the following if given the choice:
1) I would pick my battles wiser
2) I would have been more involved with homework and school instead of depending on teachers
3) I would have set rules to be followed at all times not just when we felt like they should be followed!
4) I would have never bought a gameboy, playstation, WII, DS, Cellphone or laptop for my kids
5) I would have read with them at night more often
6) I would have taken more videos and far more pictures
7) I would have never spanked them out of anger
8) I would have sheltered them more from all of the things they know now that they should not know for years
9) I would have spent more one on one time with each of them
10) I would have loved them like it was the last day they wanted to hug me in public or sleep with me at night
11) I would have never not allowed them to come and get in bed with us...that is why we have a KING bed anyway!
12) I would have child proofed TV and never would have put one in the bedroom with them
13) I would have made them do more stuff! Dance, basketball, sports etc...
14) I would have made them learn to sleep on a schedule
15) I would have made them learn to get ready and be independent
16) I would not have babied as much to help them learn Independence
17) I would have put the money I spent on private school for 10 years in a college account and made public school work!
18) I would have read more parenting books about what I am dealing with NOW to have been more prepared for tweens!
Oh how these kids being teens is hard! Is it all my fault?
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