" I gave my yearling an iPad so I could work . But now all she does is textbook with champion , and when I stress to take her phone forth , she shout out . I have vast regret . "
1.“I regret becoming a ‘tradwife.'”
2.“I HATED breastfeeding. My mom told me exclusive breastfeeding was the healthiest thing for the child, and I believed her so I did exclusive breastfeeding — HUGE mistake.”
3.“This is pretty niche, but I regret not taking quality home videos and film photographs of my kids!”
“I love the warm, grainy, film photos from when I was a kid. They have such a warmth of character to them. My iPhone pics don’t have that; just flat and digital. Which can be a good look, but it’s not the only look I want.”
4.“Gentle parenting. I have learned that there is a balance between what I saw as the ‘harshness’ of my parents’ parenting and total permissive parenting.”
5.“Not thinking too hard about where we sent them to school.”
“The final straw was when I learned the English teacher — yes, English teacher! — at my eighth grader’s school was using AI in lesson plans and encouraging students to use AI to ‘write.’ I cannot tell you how discouraged and angry we were upon learning that.”
6.And finally, a sweet one: “This is quite niche but I regret not finding the books from my own childhood sooner!”
“Having these older books has opened up worlds for my daughters. These books are (appropriately) challenging and take my kids' intelligence seriously. But the most amazing thing has been watching my daughters (especially the 8-year-old) learn to love reading.”
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