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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: 691307" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>Don't know. Jabber and I have talked about it. Maybe if we had been stricter, he'd have been worse. Maybe if we'd been more lenient, he'd have been worse. I have know way to know.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Some of it. I wish we'd have done some things with him that we didn't. I wish we'd had more "family" time and always ate at the dinner table, etc.</p><p></p><p>But when you get right down to it. We did what we did and he turned out the way he turned out. So why wouldn't I try something else - everything else - given the chance? Maybe it would work? You don't know if you don't try and so, if I had a magic spell and I could go back in time, I'd try. Sure, it might be like killing baby Hitler - and history would just arrange itself around the changes so that the world would be just the same. But why not give it a shot?</p><p></p><p>I'm 99% sure if I had a easy child to go with my Difficult Child. Then I'd know it wasn't me. But he was my only shot at parenting. So maybe I did everything right and maybe I didn't. I have no way to know.</p><p></p><p>I have to admit to some things I did that I would definitely do again. I'd still divorce his biodad. I'd still marry Jabber. He's a wonderful man and I truly feel he and I were meant to be. But pretty much the rest? Hard to say.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 691307, member: 17309"] Don't know. Jabber and I have talked about it. Maybe if we had been stricter, he'd have been worse. Maybe if we'd been more lenient, he'd have been worse. I have know way to know. Some of it. I wish we'd have done some things with him that we didn't. I wish we'd had more "family" time and always ate at the dinner table, etc. But when you get right down to it. We did what we did and he turned out the way he turned out. So why wouldn't I try something else - everything else - given the chance? Maybe it would work? You don't know if you don't try and so, if I had a magic spell and I could go back in time, I'd try. Sure, it might be like killing baby Hitler - and history would just arrange itself around the changes so that the world would be just the same. But why not give it a shot? I'm 99% sure if I had a easy child to go with my Difficult Child. Then I'd know it wasn't me. But he was my only shot at parenting. So maybe I did everything right and maybe I didn't. I have no way to know. I have to admit to some things I did that I would definitely do again. I'd still divorce his biodad. I'd still marry Jabber. He's a wonderful man and I truly feel he and I were meant to be. But pretty much the rest? Hard to say. [/QUOTE]
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