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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 226288" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Ugh. What a present! My oldest daughter used to cut and they tried to tell us we'd get arrested if she kept cutting. That scared her enough that she sort of stopped. For a while.</p><p>I can't speak for you. I still can't cut and run and do exactly what I want. I've been a mom of five and three are grown. My 15 year old is on the autism spectrum and my 12 year old is just becoming hormonal. As much as I'd love to just do my own thing completely, I can't. I can write--I love writing and have published many books online (and made some money doing it). But I can't just go back to college, work full time, and hang with my friends and forget I have kids. Yeah, I did my time, BUT I also ASKED for that time. We all do when we have kids. in my opinion teens need us more than little ones very often. I think taking time for yourself is a great idea. But I don't think letting your daughter, who still needs you (even though she doesn't know it) plus the little ones be on the backburner will make you feel good in the longrun. When we sign up for kids, we give up a lot of Just-Me-First time. This, of course, is just my opinion. I figure that I'll have lots of time when my youngest is 18 (and actually I'll be 60 when she's 18!!!). But that still gives me twenty years to do what I want <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> We have long life expenctencies in my family.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 226288, member: 1550"] Ugh. What a present! My oldest daughter used to cut and they tried to tell us we'd get arrested if she kept cutting. That scared her enough that she sort of stopped. For a while. I can't speak for you. I still can't cut and run and do exactly what I want. I've been a mom of five and three are grown. My 15 year old is on the autism spectrum and my 12 year old is just becoming hormonal. As much as I'd love to just do my own thing completely, I can't. I can write--I love writing and have published many books online (and made some money doing it). But I can't just go back to college, work full time, and hang with my friends and forget I have kids. Yeah, I did my time, BUT I also ASKED for that time. We all do when we have kids. in my opinion teens need us more than little ones very often. I think taking time for yourself is a great idea. But I don't think letting your daughter, who still needs you (even though she doesn't know it) plus the little ones be on the backburner will make you feel good in the longrun. When we sign up for kids, we give up a lot of Just-Me-First time. This, of course, is just my opinion. I figure that I'll have lots of time when my youngest is 18 (and actually I'll be 60 when she's 18!!!). But that still gives me twenty years to do what I want ;) We have long life expenctencies in my family. [/QUOTE]
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