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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you and your spouse raised your kids into successful adults. What were some of the things you did that most impacted them becoming well adjusted successful adults? Do you have any regrets?[/quote]

Most impact

No formal religion. Comparative religions are discussed over time.

Education. Love of learning. Sharing in that with them.

Travel as much as possible.

Reading everything and anything. We read to them they read to us. We discussed books as they aged. Reading fundamental part of our family.

Dim Sum Sundays are mandatory LOL. Funny to this day they still as adults do this.

Sex ed early on.

Personal responsibility. Starting in MS make your own lunch, pack your own stuff no one is bringing you your stuff. College apps you want to go you do it, you want a tutor ask. Teach them to cook and want to help in the kitchen, take them grocery shopping show them pricing etc. When they are old enough they do their own taxes.

Bank accounts they should have one. Because my kids worked during the summer, whether it was camp counselor or retail or food service learning to work and read a paystub is a life skill

No chores we are a family we help each other. My kids never once balked at this. I rarely had to ask someone to take out the trash they kind of took turns on their own.

Saying I was sorry if I did something wrong.

Listen to them I can not stress this enough engage with them put the cell phones down every night at dinner and talk to each other. If you can not do that because of schedules then pick a time on the weekend that you can. This all of mine said was impactful.

What I failed at.

My mother's voice at times.

I come from poverty and a criminal household. Keeping my kids away from that was not always easy or maybe I did not handle it the best way.

A little too strict on alcohol in HS.  Although three of mine have said now they are glad we were. These three were our most social, very social.

Mine are all grown and graduated from graduate schools etc. gainfully employed. It is not lost on me that we are very lucky and that the best of parenting can still go off the rails.

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