What do you regret not having done while your children were young?
353136
Not spending more time with them and if I could I would want to go back in time and change it.
793477
Riding in Cars With Boys\nI was a young single Mom for a while like she was.... I messed up like she did- but I got it all together like she did.
1082002
I date my life to everything that occurred before and after my Dad's passing.  His passing took a major toll on me, and changed me from a reasonably happy person to one who held her grief in, and became an angry and bitter person in the process.  Hard as I try I can't seem to bring back the old me, who used to love to sing along with the radio in the car, or devote herself to her family, without sometimes resenting them, because they demand so much of her time.  I know I could have been a lot better mother than I have been to my children.  I want that for my children, so I wish I could go back to that moment in my life, and find the time and strength to grieve, instead of running from the pain that I have been hiding in my heart for so many years.
973404
The thing I want the most is to stay at home with my children and raise them (which I do). Financially my hubby and I had to sacrifice not having the newest or best gadgets or clothes or car so that we can give more to our family. It is very much worth the sacrifice.
494624
Oh My God! \n\nWhen I was young I ALWAYS swore I would never say or do the same things that my mum done and said to me. This morning I heard myself shouting the same words to my kids that I heard my mother shout to me 20 years ago and I got really scared. LoL
1144636
I know they say "don't regret any thing you've done", but I kinda do.  I regret having sex when I was 15.  I was a good girl, went to school every day, was always on honer roll.  Had a job and a car.  I was very good.  Until I had this boyfriend that convinced me (after 2 years of dating him) that we should have sex.  So one day I did and I ended up pregnant!  Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my child that came from it (she is 6 now) but It ended my days of school and work and my parents were so disappointed with me.  Not to mention I was disappointed a lot.  Then the dad took of to another state and left me here to deal with it by myself.  If I didn't have sex, then I would of graduated with good grades and went to collage!  But I still have a great life now, I just would of had more options if I would of thought things out.
746906
Start dating and having some fun.  Make fun memories while you are young and then you can look back on those times and smile.  Once you settle down and have kids you will wish you had taken the time to have fun while you could.  Slow down and enjoy life now while you are young enough to.  There is plenty of time to reach your goals but if you don't have some fun you will really regret it and might even become bitter about it.  Don't waste your youth being old before your time.
278114
For my daughter to wake up (she is 2 yrs old) and give her morning smile and sit on my lap as we both read the newspaper.... She started this from her 14th month.. When I travelled for couple of months, I missed it so much...\n\n.:Fishie:.
101267
I think sight would be the worst to lose too.  I couldn't stand to not be able to see what my children look like as they grow up, or see so many other beautiful things.  Sometimes I wish I couldn't smell (changing dirty diapers!) or even hear (dogs barking all night).  But those senses would be easier to do without I think.  This is a good question, makes you think.
572993
my daughters growing up.\n40
259884
When my daughter wakes up and starts playing with her toys, gets her mother to run behind her to make her eat. Sleeps peacefully on her father's shoulders...\n\nWish I was a kid like her with no worries and no deadlines <sigh>\n\nBut then I feel sad that within a year or two she will start the tiring journey called Study-Work-Pay life......\n\nWish we remained as Cave-men... <sigh> \n\n.:Fishie:.
505143
Were you afraid that your kids would forget you if you left? Or that someone else would raise them not to your liking? I can understand that, but still, if you are unhappy, your kids shouldn't see you that way.
390605
I was a bit cruel to others when I was in high school, and I drank alot then too, hung out with the wrong kids, and did not apply myself to my studies.\n\nIn life, I cheated on my ex wife, Its been 6 year, and I still regret it.  It has cost me everything I have desired in life.
779071
I most regret not raising my children in church.  Being raised in church gives children a foundation that can't be replaced with anything else.  It gives them reason for staying on the right track, and if they get off track it gives them a foundation to come back to.
1154534
I regret not going to college before I had a family. \n\nWhen I applied before- my mother had abandoned my younger siblings and I couldn't get financial aid because I didn't know where she was.  I was under the age to not have my parent's income considered.  The financial aid counselor just told me no- and I left crying. \n\nNow that I have a job and small children, I am not willing/able to jump through the appropriate hoops for a degree.  I want to spend my extra time with my kids.\n\nKind of funny considering I graduated (in 1991) with an advanced studies diploma and went to a gifted school for three years.
990162
You may have made mistakes, sometimes critically important mistakes, that wounded your children in some way. Most parents, even under the best conditions, will make such a mistake at least once during their childrens' lives. \n\nHowever, your children are middle-aged now; they need to own whatever happened to them, accept that what is done is done, heal their wounds the best they can, and take responsibility for providing themselves and their children with a better life than perhaps you were able to provide for them when they were small.\n\nYou need to tell them that if they expect to have any happiness or success in their lives at all, they have to quit blaming you and start taking responsibility for their own lives now. There's nothing you can do to undo whatever hurt they experienced as children; but there is also nothing you can do to undo whatever hurt they're experiencing in their adult lives...because it's NOT your job. If they expect to have any happiness in their lives at all, they're going to have to work on themselves and do what they need to do for themselves to have a better life.\n\nUntil then, ignore their accusations. They are just guilting you to take the spotlight off their own failures as adults to cope.
247323
Dying Young, I don't want to leave my children while they are so young.