OT parents did your kids get to experience the same things you did growing up?

No, they haven't experienced everything I did but we're making our own traditions that I hope they'll look fondly upon one day.

Brought them to the family land to ride four wheelers like we rode three wheelers back in the day. They also loved going to the camp for boating and fishing as much as we did.

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biggest regret was my kids not getting to experience Mardi Gras. I could never take 3 kids out of school(they have spring break but never the same dates as Mardi Gras) for a week to show them the real Mardi Gras experience

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My cousin also lives in Jacksonville, she would put her children in the car Friday afterschool catch all the Saturday and Sunday parades. Left Sunday evening.

No , my experience as a child was working on a farm after school everyday of my life. My kids will not experience that. Of course I teach them you have to work for what you want in life but they are not my personal slaves.

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Sounds like the same experience I used to have at Disney world.

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I fail to see the problem because I thought this thread was about your kids not getting to have the same childhood experiences.

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we rode 3 wheelers back in the day

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I had a 200 and all my friends had three wheelers. When we would camp out we would look like hell's angels riding on the levee. There was like 15 of us.

I was responding to the poster that said his sister would drive her and her kids from jacksonville to Mardi Gras. I was giving an analogy about the stress involved. Now get off my lawn son

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I could never take 3 kids out of school(they have spring break but never the same dates as Mardi Gras) for a week to show them the real Mardi Gras experience.

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Grade school isn't that serious man, do it.

Ya know that's the thing. Back in the day, parents used their kids like free labor. Huge gardens, livestock, crops. They would work reg. jobs while the kids did the hard labor. I lived it with no regrets. Taught me alot
The more kids, the bigger the ponderosa

Hard to do geographically as well as what's acceptable parenting nowadays. My kids won't grow up in a rural setting, so there's no way they'll ride three wheelers, ride in the backs of pickups deep into the muddy woods, crawfish in ditches regularly, be gone from breakfast till dinner riding bikes. Not to mention it's just a different time.

But you're making a different & better life for your kids. They'll grow up & do the same and nostalgicly wish their kids got to experience their lives over again.

Better that than actually try to recreate your life by stubbornly refusing to move for better opportunities like my sister did. "But I want to raise my son like I was raised." She never seemed to understand that the bright spots in our childhood was the love we received, not the geography. Unfortunately, it was my nephew that suffered.