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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now in the teenage years I totally agree to do less worrying in the early years.  [b]I rarely let my kids miss school to travel in elementary and now look back and think, why not? We rarely missed a soccer game- why? I wanted my kids to understand that school came first and if you made a commitment you stuck to it but I think I took that too far. [/b]

Agree to take lots of videos- I really wish we had more.

Encourage friendships with the kids and families you like. Some of them will stick.

For us the phrase “little kids, little problems” was true (tho I understand lots of families have little kids with big problems). I look back now and wish I had realized those little problems weren’t worth worrying about. 
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The bolded is what I keep coming back to when I think about things I wish I had done differently. I remember getting so frustrated with them if we were running late for some activity. I hate being late and I thought it was important to teach them to be prompt, but I should have been a bit more chill about it in general and given everything more time than I thought we needed. Because no, the world wouldn't actually have ended if we were late to gymnastics class every once in a while.[/quote]

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