• “I have a teenager and a toddler and I wish I had gone easy on the junk food. Burger King and KFC are not our friends…in the moment it may seem fast & easy for a busy/stressed Mummy but trying to re-condition the child in the later years…is difficult at best.” -J.W

• “My children are 2 & 3. What I would have done differently is ask for help more often after having my first, I took on waaaaaaaaaay too much during my post partum recovery”-D.P

• “My Son is 6 he does not listen so I wonder myself where did I go wrong so I guess I have to put my foot down some more” – D.L

• “My babies are 12, 10, 7,5 and 3. I should have shown them how to clean their rooms from 1“- T.E 

• “The boys 9 & 6. What would i have done differently? had them 20 years earlier!!”- F.M

• “My kids are 18yrs, 13yrs and 5 months. I wish I had introduced them to Christ earlier especially my 18yr old, and start having kids maybe 10 yrs later and having them closer.”- T.M

• “My son is 2 and if I could do anything differently it would be taking a stand against unsolicited advice. It is extremely difficult having a toddler, pursuing an engineering degree, keeping my marriage interesting along with balancing bills and appearance. I wish I had more support sometimes. On the upside I am proud that I made learning seem fun and censored his videos”- H.T 

• “My son is 2 1/2 years old I wished I hadn’t taken the I can do it all approach so I met all his needs and not have him wait on his dad’s timing to do things. I should have been more adamant that he help out especially during the breastfeeding months and bottle feedings and to take on weekend duty full tilt. I wished I hadn’t given in to snacking during my 6 month breast feeding exclusively stint buy I needed the energy and I didn’t have time to cook especially returning to work. My last point is with the sleeping in our bed and by the looks of it I will have a uphill constant battling in trying to get him to sleep in his own.”- R.G 

• “My Daughter is 7 and son will be here any day. I think for my daughter I probably would have started her swimming earlier if I had known I could start at 3 months. I also would have attempted cloth diapering. Everything else I think I learned from them”- M.D 

• “My Child is 13 months. I wish I had tried harder to breastfeed“.- S.A 

• “My son is 9. I would probably try breast-feeding a little harder and I would PROBABLY not spoil him as much because now he is ROTTEN” G.P

• “My daughter is 6 and my son is 2. I think I would have tried harder to breastfeed my daughter. I did it with my son and it was wonderful”-D.C.W

• “My son is 5 months next week…..a bit soon to look back and see what I would do differently. Ohhhhh circumcise him in the hospital and not when he was 2 weeks old“.-C.B

• “My daughter is about 18 months old and I wish I had let her do more… as an older 1st time mom I’ve been overly cautious“.- N.R.

• “My son turns 4 next month. I wish I knew and recognized the early signs of autism before his diagnosis last year. Feel like I should have known. Wish I trusted my “Mommy Intuition” earlier on. Glad to be past the freak out stage… somewhat…” D.M.

• “My son is 3. I wish I allowed his hair to grow until he wanted it to be cut, instead of waiting for him to ask for hair (like mine, his dad, & my friends). I am happy he requested no more barber & is sticking with it though”.-M.B.

• “My kids are 25, 23, 9, 5 and I wish I had more patience with all of them… But my parenting is sooooo much better the second time around”…-M.W.

• “My First one is 3 years old, second is 20 months. I wish I had put my foot down more with visitors after I had my first. I didn’t want to offend anyone, but looking back, it was really overwhelming (especially when people try to give unsolicited advice). I also believe all that unnecessary stress affected my milk supply, because the second time around I was more successful – even though it didn’t last very long.”- K.M

• ” My daughter is 7 years old and I wish I didn’t stay in a bad relationship ‘for the sake of my child’ . I could sense it was going downhill from the start, but I really wanted to have my child grow up with both parents. It eventually took some serious soul searching to realize that a bad relationship could never be good for my child. I regret staying on for 7 years though as my child picked up lots of the negatives from that relationship such as shouting and storming out etc”- G.H

• “My son is 11 and in that awkward stage and I wish I had spent more time with him instead of being so involved at work. I feel like I was always so busy with work that he literally grew out of my sight so I just wish I didn’t miss out on so much of his life by being so busy with my career” -R.L

• “My daughter is 8 and sometimes when I look back, I wish I had played with her more. I was always so busy with work, rushing home, taking care of dinner, getting ready for bed and work that I felt I never truly had play time with her” – D.P

• “My kids are now teenagers and now I wish I had listened to them more. It is really hard to be maintaining a relationship with them now especially with them always saying I never listen. Sigh” -K.T. 

  If an extremely busy schedule is your cry, try to reserve weekends for quality time with your kids; If they say you never listen, try to do just that and remember we have been granted motherly instincts for a reason so let us use them and end the cycle of regrets.

P.S. My daughter is 6 going on 60 and I wish I had popped out baby number 2, three years ago.  At the time, I couldn’t fathom being a second time mother as I feared not having enough time for both 🙂

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson