There is no way I would.... But I did...

[LouBlue1507]

Following on from another thread..

Is there anything you said you'd never, ever do but then did?

Let my kids have hideous polyester chavvy football kits. I gave up that one a long time ago. Actually they wash well dry quickly don't need ironing and take up no space at all. I try to console myself that the pros outweigh the cons.......

Live in a modern box on an estate.

Actually there's a lot to be said for being warm, dry, fed and feeling safe. Hirachy of needs lesson learnt.

I said I would never, ever move back to my hometown. Then I did. Seven miserable years later I came to my senses and left for good.

Fall in love. I had come to terms with it never happening for me. Then met my ex, fell in love, then she broke my heart and stomped on it. So not an experience I plan on repeating any time soon.

Have a one night stand!

Give my baby a dummy. I sent DH to the 24hr ASDA at 2 in the morning the first night home from hospital to buy dummies and wine!

Have a fourth DC.

Let my DCs own tracksuit bottoms. I hate them but have to accept the fact that sometimes they just want to dress in them and avert my eyes.

Get married. Always said it was bullshit. Met DH, he wanted to get married and I stopped hating it.

Go in a helicopter. Awesome experience. Not sure how probable a repeat is.

Give my baby a dummy. Co-sleeping. Contemplate (although never seriously) cry-it-out sleep training. Long term sleep deprivation teaches you that every the reddest red lines fade to pink after a while if someone suggests that crossing them might get your baby to sleep more than two hours on the trot... 😣

Have bum sex.

Hahaha! I second the co-sleeping and bum sex 😂

Get a tattoo!

Go to a football match . I did just to be sociable with friends when our boys played in the same team , I was instantly hooked and have been a season ticket holder for 15 years .

Share a bed with my child every night.

Go to university. I was adamant I'd never do this.

As a teenager I thought it would be like school, but worse, because I'd have to live in halls and would have no escape from other teenagers - as a sensible, noise-sensitive introvert, that sounded like hell. I also thought it was only for 'posh people,' so definitely not me.

I've just graduated. Started in my late twenties, commuted, really enjoyed it.

Go to Disneyland.

It was bloody awful... should've stuck to my guns.

Live back at my parents.

Currently tucked up in bed with ds, as a newly single mother ... at my parents.

Surprisingly having a lovely time!

Another one for co-sleeping!

Jump out of a Perfectly good plane, I did for charity with dh after our dd was stillborn

Get a tattoo, I've got 3

Shag a boss, I did more than once and good was he good ( was years ago now though)

Have my dc close in age like my aunt did, mine are 11 months apart

About a million different parenting things.
Think 18 month old watching Peppa Pig on an iPad while sucking on a dummy and you'll get the gist.

Introduce a "new man" to my children (who were 5 and 8 when exH left). Or not for "at least a year"

I met dh and married him 11 months later. The kids had met him 5 times (albeit we had spent a good few weeks together within those five times)
That was ten years ago. No regrets at all!

I said I'd never but I did....

And regretted: Move back home after university (such a huge mistake)

And so glad I changed my mind: Have a child.

Go to Disneyland. I loved it!

All the parenting things - formula, TV, sleep training, chocolate, give into tantrums. I very quickly learnt to do what's best for an easy life.