What life skills/pearls of wisdom have you passed onto your children?

[MummySam2017]

I’m very curious about this. What life skills or pearls of wisdom have you passed onto your children? Or even something that has been passed onto you.

I was taught how to cook and swim very early on. My Nan passed on so much of her knowledge to me, lessons that are still with me to this day. Even though she’s no longer with me, I feel like she is.

I’d love to hear some more if you’d like to share?

How well I know that now as a Mum lol.

That relatives can be cut out of your life if they’re detrimental. My darling dad said this to after years of me tolerating abuse from a relative “because they were family”. I’ve made it clear to my children that they don’t have to tolerate shit from ANYONE, family members do not get a free pass because of genetics.
My mum always told me that when one door closes, a larger one opens and I’ve found that’s given me Hope over the years that something better is coming.

From my mum, save for something you really want , don't whack it on a credit card as the incentive to save once you've had it or got it goes. From my dad not a life skill or hack but he encouraged me to keep a diary which he did from about 1947 to when he died in 2008. I did from about the age of 12 and still do to this day. I have a record of my teenage angst, my struggles with a new born, my mother's dementia and my breakdown as well as normal day to day stuff. It's fascinating to read it back and remember.

Two things I'm pretty sure my daughter can now recite, after 50 + years of living:

Don't let Perfect be the enemy of Good.

And

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

As an aside, I've also taught her that it's your football team, win loose or draw.

I've tried to teach them to socialise. It feels like nobody ever came to our house, we never had parties & you can count in one hand how many times my parents went out.
I found it uncomfortable at first but made sure we have friends over, meet my friends in the park, all the normal stuff because conversation & socialising is a valuable life skill.

I also try really hard to teach gratitude. Life is so much happier if you can reflect on what you have not compare your life to everyone else's.

Finally, trying to o teach a bit of critical thought. They still believe anything there told so lots of questions around 'but do you think that really happened? Why might they say that?'

I'm a barrel of laughs me. The kids love my lectures 😂