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Some advice looking back now that difficult child is 15
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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 389499"><p>I too have done the what if I had..... and I have a huge list like others here. The thing is it doesn't help me at all to do that, unless somehow it is going to change something I do now. Sometimes when I really look at those what ifs I realize it might not have made any difference at all. Sometimes I also realize what if I hadn't..... things could be oh so much worse.</p><p></p><p>So really all you can do is think about the here and now and what you can or cannot do now. </p><p></p><p>The other thing I try to remember is that all of our experiences make us who we are as adults and I know if my son can get on track he could be a wonderful adult... and the experiences that got him there will provide him some thing later on.</p><p></p><p>I have yet to meet a really interesting adult who had a completely charmed and perfect childhood. As a friend said to me once years and years ago before I ever had kids (but she had 3 and was dealing with guilt) "no one reaches adult hood with a full deck".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 389499"] I too have done the what if I had..... and I have a huge list like others here. The thing is it doesn't help me at all to do that, unless somehow it is going to change something I do now. Sometimes when I really look at those what ifs I realize it might not have made any difference at all. Sometimes I also realize what if I hadn't..... things could be oh so much worse. So really all you can do is think about the here and now and what you can or cannot do now. The other thing I try to remember is that all of our experiences make us who we are as adults and I know if my son can get on track he could be a wonderful adult... and the experiences that got him there will provide him some thing later on. I have yet to meet a really interesting adult who had a completely charmed and perfect childhood. As a friend said to me once years and years ago before I ever had kids (but she had 3 and was dealing with guilt) "no one reaches adult hood with a full deck". [/QUOTE]
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