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The point about regretting not spending more time with family makes me really sad. Slaving away in a high pressure cooperate job is a sure way to miss out on wh
by hestefisk 5y ago
The point about regretting not spending more time with family makes me really sad. Slaving away in a high pressure cooperate job is a sure way to miss out on what’s really important.
- nemo44x 5y agoEspecially when you consider how little you’ll see them once they move out. 90% of the time you’ll spend with your kids will happen before they are 18.
- hestefisk 5y agoFuel on the fire, life is painful and unfair. :(
- JKCalhoun 5y agoI'll make it worse: actually before they start middle school (junior high). When mine were young, I read to them every night before bed and they seemed to really enjoy it. We worked through, believe it or not, The Lord of the Rings, Uncle Remus stories, the Harry Potter series, The Hobbit, most of the Andrew Lang Fairie books, etc. But once they got past age 12, school got "real", smart phones landed in their hands and fairyland faded away.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoThe timing is horrible, ins't it? I decided to try and leverage my life as a corporate cog and retire as early as I thought I could (age 57), but it is too late with regard to raising my daughters. They've all flown the nest. I did try the best I could to give them, I think, more than my parent(s) gave me when I was growing up.
- oldstrangers 5y agoYou've got the best years still available with your daughters now though. Plan trips with them, plan experiences. I'm 37 and I go and visit my aging parents as much as I can, adding up that collective time together. My dad is 76, I wish he was 57. I'd ask him to go camping or on a road trip. I should still do that now probably, it's just hard to shake the realities of aging.