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If you could raise your kids again, what would you change?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 691277" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>Yes, I know. But hindsight is 20/20 and now when I look back, I see everything as a mistake. I wish I'd have put him in a different school. Jabber and I even discussed military school at one point, he was so difficult at times. I don't think I'd have gone that route, but a psychiatrist and counseling for sure and a parochial school probably. We should have done more "family" things. We should have drug him to bowling and paintball and other activities - he liked them, we all did, but we just never went. We should have kept him in martial arts. We let him try anything he wanted with respect to sports, but if, after the season he wanted to quit, we let him. For martial arts, his dojo closed and he didn't want to find another, so he quit. </p><p></p><p>I should have seen this coming. I can't believe at the age of 17 I was suddenly confronted with his smoking K2 and stuff. He wasn't the person I thought he was. He was so close to being an adult, we did nothing. I don't know what we could have done? But something. </p><p></p><p>So yeah. I feel like I did everything wrong. I loved him and just kind of assumed he'd grow up into a good kid. We're good people. Good people have good kids, right? </p><p></p><p>A lot of the time I feel that I was a lazy mother and that I was a fool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 691277, member: 17309"] Yes, I know. But hindsight is 20/20 and now when I look back, I see everything as a mistake. I wish I'd have put him in a different school. Jabber and I even discussed military school at one point, he was so difficult at times. I don't think I'd have gone that route, but a psychiatrist and counseling for sure and a parochial school probably. We should have done more "family" things. We should have drug him to bowling and paintball and other activities - he liked them, we all did, but we just never went. We should have kept him in martial arts. We let him try anything he wanted with respect to sports, but if, after the season he wanted to quit, we let him. For martial arts, his dojo closed and he didn't want to find another, so he quit. I should have seen this coming. I can't believe at the age of 17 I was suddenly confronted with his smoking K2 and stuff. He wasn't the person I thought he was. He was so close to being an adult, we did nothing. I don't know what we could have done? But something. So yeah. I feel like I did everything wrong. I loved him and just kind of assumed he'd grow up into a good kid. We're good people. Good people have good kids, right? A lot of the time I feel that I was a lazy mother and that I was a fool. [/QUOTE]
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