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Polarstern from United States Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#1: Feb 22nd 2013 at 12:39:18 AM

Just what it says! I'd like you guys to say somethings you would have liked to have your parents do, say, or share. I have four kids now so I may steal some of your ideas to use on my own bunch.

Personally, I wish my parents would have told me more about their personal lives and who they were as individuals, not just Mom and Dad.

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Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#2: Feb 22nd 2013 at 1:23:19 AM

For the most part, I think that my parents did just fine. I would count myself lucky if I could manage to be as good a parent for my hypothetical, eventual offspring as they were for me and my siblings.

But if I had to make a small (microscopic, really...) criticism...

My parents have never been terribly concerned with the necessity of their children keeping themselves in good physical shape. It was just not something that they saw as an issue; and as a consequence, both me and my siblings have at times been rather overweight and unathletic during our youths. Mind, it was much better this way than if they had been health-obsessed, weight-shaming parents from hell, but perhaps they went a bit too far in the other direction.

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cutewithoutthe Góðberit Norðling Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
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#3: Feb 22nd 2013 at 1:42:05 AM

I wish my father would have stayed in me and my siblings' lives. I wish he had tried harder to care for us. I wish he had been more responsible. I wish he had saved us from our mother earlier.

I wish my mother tried to fight against her psychosis, instead of giving into it. I wish she would have tried to work, instead of constantly drinking and sleeping, when I lived with her. I wish she wouldn't have constantly abused me, verbally or physically or emotionally. I wish she'll get better somehow, some way.

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#4: Feb 22nd 2013 at 5:58:50 AM

I think that my parents are doing pretty well. They respect personal privacy, and they know the value of trusting your kids. :3 They don't look at my Internet history out of respect for me as a person, and in return, I don't go to any sites I'm not supposed to go to.

I wish they'd give me more freedom to go play outside, though. Or to meet people. And that they'd let me try new stuff that I want to try more, instead of forcing me to try things I don't want to try.

I wish they'd let me try being more independent, because now I'm scared that I won't know how to do anything on my own when I'm older. Especially since in comparison to my peers.

joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
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#5: Feb 22nd 2013 at 5:59:43 AM

Personally, I wish my parents would have told me more about their personal lives and who they were as individuals, not just Mom and Dad.

Not to answer a question with a question but if your parents rise you isn't that just something you pick up on?

Of course I called my parents by their first names until my early teens so I can't speak for everybody..

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Polarstern from United States Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#6: Feb 22nd 2013 at 8:11:34 AM

I want to know who they were before they had me, and who they are independent of parenting. My parents kept their work and their personal lives very distant from when they were with us kids. They felt when they were around us, they should be Mother and Father, not Tom and Diane.

If I called my parents by their first names, they would not have been pleased.

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joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
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#7: Feb 22nd 2013 at 8:14:09 AM

My parents weren't, that's why I did itgrin

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Polarstern from United States Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#8: Feb 22nd 2013 at 8:21:43 AM

I think that's cool!

My kids call me Medic for the most part. Though my younger one is starting to call me Dad occasionally. Makes me feel special. cool

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kay4today Princess Ymir's knightess from Austria Since: Jan, 2011
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#9: Feb 22nd 2013 at 8:22:47 AM

I wish my parents had been... parents! xD

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#10: Feb 22nd 2013 at 8:34:05 AM

Here's a couple, some of which might be minor, and some which are major.

  • Father would be less temperamental.
  • Both of them to not mind my like for My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (I.E. they both are okay with it.)
  • Mother to not be so overprotective.

It's probably nuts of me to say it, but I think I've opted to a more practical perspective.

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Lemurian from Touhou fanboy attic Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#11: Feb 22nd 2013 at 8:47:08 AM

I'm very satisfied, but I wished my dad had been a bit easier to know as a father. He was always in "work"-mode (and still is, even though he's technically retired), but then his work is his life. My view of him was dominated greatly by how my mother perceived him, and there were periods where I called him by his first name.

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#12: Feb 22nd 2013 at 11:33:22 AM

I wish they'd forced me to learn a musical instrument. Otherwise, I'm happ enough.

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joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
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#13: Feb 23rd 2013 at 6:35:44 AM

Force your child to take dancing lessons. I can't stress this enough.

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#14: Feb 23rd 2013 at 7:08:27 AM

I wish my parents had enrolled me in martial arts as soon as I could walk and talk, and when I got home, they'd time me on field stripping an AK-74.

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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#15: Feb 23rd 2013 at 11:13:21 AM

Die.

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terlwyth Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#16: Feb 23rd 2013 at 11:47:59 AM

Not force me to take violin lessons and waste a decade on that stupid instrument and almost destroy my desire for anything beyond silence.

Let me skip church once in a while,because it was fairly boring.

Keep secrets and not blab them when my back is turned if I had a falling out

Let me go to a proper Middle School and finish Elementary School with the few friends I just made,instead of forcing me to homeschool with a Fundie ciricullum followed by a Catholic school where everyone was an asshole.

Not signed me up for a Math program that did jack-shit to help me out (some of you tropers probably know it as Kumon)

Signed me up for a martial arts class

Not bragged about how they skipped a grade way back when and left the house at 17.

Although I could go on,I don't want to over Accentuate the Negative just hammer in the point that they weren't perfect. They were still really good parents anyway.

edited 23rd Feb '13 11:50:50 AM by terlwyth

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Steventheman Cmdr. of His Supremacy's Armed Forces from Wales Since: Feb, 2011
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#17: Feb 23rd 2013 at 11:48:45 AM

Be a little more forceful on my school life.

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#18: Feb 23rd 2013 at 11:11:24 PM

Keep on living.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#19: Feb 23rd 2013 at 11:24:10 PM

Instilled in me more of a backbone and weren't so overprotective. I feel like the reason I'm so sheltered is that my mom instilled in me a great deal of paranoia that still affects me and probably won't stop affecting me the rest of my life (but will probably, hopefully, greatly lessen once I'm out of the house).

As for my dad, well, if he was around more and didn't work so much, and especially if he wasn't such a tool*

whenever he is around, that'd be nice, I guess.

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IsaacSapphire from North of the Moon Since: Jul, 2009
#20: Feb 24th 2013 at 2:40:35 PM

Not decided that agreeing on minor doctrinal points was more important when picking a church than everyone there not being horrible jerks and a glowing example of rape culture and a bunch of other bad things.

Realizing that actually, money matters and actually owning new, stylish clothing matters, because for girls, you aren't going to be able to have friends without at least an attempt at wearing "in" clothing.

I'd say allowed me to date before I turned 18, but really, there weren't any eligible people around anyway. Still, it wasn't cool for them to virtually say, "We know this is hard, but we'd rather not have to deal with it than be there to support you while you learn."

Said, "You need to get a degree you could actually get a job with, not an English degree"

Really, I could be here all night.

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#21: Feb 24th 2013 at 9:48:26 PM

Not give me up.

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joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
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#22: Mar 2nd 2013 at 3:04:19 AM

Sorry guys you guys went throught that but let's keep this general and impersonal.

I'm which case my only bit of advice is Immunise your children.

Thank you, public service over.

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revevil3 from San Diego Since: Feb, 2010
#23: Mar 13th 2013 at 4:42:01 AM

Not do heroin and commit suicide.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#24: Mar 13th 2013 at 11:08:51 AM

[up][up]...Yeah, I don't think you're going to get people to not be personal here.

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Ninety Absolutely no relation to NLK from Land of Quakes and Hills Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
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#25: Mar 13th 2013 at 1:59:43 PM

They're pretty damn awesome, but if they'd stop trying to use painfully forced British idioms, that'd be great.

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