Supa's topic started me thinking about this. What will our kids say about us when they're our age? Do we yell too often? Do we play with them enough? Did we provide material things without being there enough emotionally? Do we eat at the dinner table or does everyone sort of go where they go?

I'm not certain what my kids will say, but I do know that I can be too selfish with my time and perhaps should, more often, get involved with games, etc, that I'm not intersted in. But, I do the dinner table thing and we have long talks about everything... so, I'd think that I am there for them emotionally.

I don't have kids!

But I already know what my nieces and nephews say...

sag10 said:

I'm sure I know what they say, too!

All I can say, is what she has said about me within the recent past...

Tanys wrote on a piece of masking tape, and gave it to me as I left her house one evening...

It said: "Your cool! Your fun! Your nice! Your not someone who is hateful! You love me!"

The last exclaimation point had a heart beneath it instead of a period...

I have that tape fixed just above my monitor...it's been there ever since she first gave it to me.

I'm sure every kid will complain about something.....

you didn't play enough, you yelled too much....

might as well do the best you can and accept that they will resent SOMETHING

My daughter is now 19 and she always thanks me for being cool and easy to talk to when she needed someone. She is thankful that I had her at a very young age. She liked the fact that all her friends loved me, could tell me things they were afraid to tell their parents...all that stuff. Now, she says she's glad we are friends and that we are able to hang out together and laugh like adults.

My son? He's almost 4. I would hope that one day he is thankful that I put my career, grad school and social life on the back burner while he grew to school age. I couldn't bare sending him to day-care since I was able to stay home with him and enjoy everything I missed when my daughter was little. Thank goodness he has a good father that allowed for that. I also would hope that he remembers that I gave everything I had to him and for him, we played a lot and I taught him a lot. I guess I could keep going, but maybe I should stop

In essence, I stopped living my life as it were in order to raise him the way I was raised. Now...I get to go back to work. Yippie for pre-school! Grad school will come around again in 2 more years

hans and i do not have children, sadly but there are many failed experiments that we keep.

they are locked away in wing b away from prying eyes and must not be revealed.

there's mistakes with every place of employment, are there not?