What your parents never taught you...

you talk and talk but i have to say the greatest thing you can teach them if how to listen...if you listen to anything..just sit your kid down and just chat and see what comes up then hey...its just something i wish my parents would do but dont...

Hmmm, I would have to agree with Bob...when i was younger i was like my mom's mini me...attached to her hip...but when i started getting old enough to go out on my own...i would just get the money and be gone with friends for a few hours. But One thing i wish my would have taught me is to take advantage of my youth to seize everyday of it because you don't get it back...I started working my first job when i was 13...played soccer, went to school, tried to keep a social life...and i did those things on my own...My mom or step dad were never there to watch me score a goal, or seen my first A+ on a test paper...it was just me. (Full time workers) And it's still like that I still work and go to school, No one is ever home...my mom leaves me money every morning to order something for supper...i go to school, work come home...clean the house....make my own supper take out gets kinda sick after a while...and if i am lucky i get an hour of t.v....shower..and off to bed i go...No one ever told me that teenage years are the hardest and most important....after 12 i pretty well grew up on my own....but i don't feel unloved or unwanted....because i am so use to doing my own thing because it's been like this since 12 it doesnt bother me. But when i have my kids i will be sure talking to them...about just being a kid and not having to many responsibilities on your plate.
However, My mom ALWAYS makes a time for just us to hang out...she knows it isn't easy for me...so on the weekend it's us...we go to the movies...shop...go for lunch..she makes a home cooked meal...it's a normal family on the weekends...week days on the other hand...different story But in sense it gives me a great opportunity for indepedence....but i will always be a 110% mother when i have kids...you gotta be...you need to let your kids know you are there for them, and they can talk to you about anything....i tell my mom everything...(well not everything) but 90% of the things i do..ahaha and she appreciated me givin her the 4-1-1 instead of her snooping around ....do all parents snoop around...or is that just my mom ahaha
take care
Scooby

It would have been nice if my Mother had taught me to believe in myself a little more, and not deny certain aspects or abilities, especially those i displayed as a child.

But all in all i love the person i've grown to be, and i understand that i wouldn't be the same had i been better nurtured.

"The flower that blooms in advercity
is the most beautiful flower of all"

Good question.