What do you want to teach your children that your parents didn’t teach you?

[Whattodowithaminute]

And how are you going to do it?

That they are loved and wanted.
That they are strong
That what they physically look like to others isn't the be all and end all- playing-out scruffs are ok!
That they can achieve anything
That we don't have to 'keep up appearances'
That we are allowed to have problems. We can learn from problems and work together to solve them.
We shouldn't care too much what others think of us. What we think of ourselves is more important.
That nobody is better than them

How to make decisions.

^This

My DPs are lovely, but I wish they weren’t quite so rigid in their thinking. I’d be better able to trust my own judgement if I hadn’t spent my life hearing “Ooh, are you sure you want to do that?”. A lot of this was about trivial decisions that didn’t affect anyone else.

I also wish I’d had the opportunity to learn another language at a young age, and I wish my DPs had shown me how to do exercises to stay supple. My body is very stiff and by the time I showed an interest in dance as a teenager, I was already quite restricted in what I could do.