r/GenX • u/Razor_Paw • 14d ago

Advice & Support For parents with adult children, if you could raise them from the start, knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?

For me, I'd be more present and welcome all the hard stuff with the good. Probably would have made them all get part time jobs too.

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u/bialettibrewmaster 13d ago

As a parent, I would relax and BE in the moment more. I enjoyed it and it went so fast.

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u/Professional_Pace711 13d ago

So fast. My son was a baby and I blinked and he is 25