re: What You Wish You Knew Before Having Kids

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How can someone miss out on something they never really wanted in the first place?

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Because maybe I would've, but that's a different life.

I wouldn't have been a good father, as a Sith..it never usually works out.

That it’s never too early to start teaching your children proper manners and how to respect others. It’s the foundation of the kind of person they will be in the future. I see so many disrespectful kids out in public these days and it makes my skin crawl.

What an evil bitch I was procreating with.

They're psycho in their own special little ways.

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Put your fricking phone down (while posting from my iPhone)

Not every moment needs to be captured via a camera

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this is not a lesson on having kids, this is a lesson for all of life.

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Not every moment needs to be captured via a camera

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This is what drives me crazy about my in-laws with my daughter. She’ll be doing something cute, I’ll be making a memory of it, then my mother in law will scream “Somebody get a picture of that!!!” Drives me nuts because now instead of enjoying the moment I’m having to get my phone out.

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Sounds simple, but I wish I had known in general how to care for kids a little bit. I had hardly ever held a baby before I held my own, had never changed a diaper, never fed a baby, none of that. I wasted some of the most precious moments of my life stressing out about what to do l.

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This is the one thing that has me feeling way better with #2 just a couple weeks away.

Sure, I now know the "joys" that await me this summer but at least I can hold the kid and change a diaper no problem.

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Not every moment needs to be captured via a camera

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I get what you’re saying. However I randomly pulled out my phone and just recorded non events when my kids were small. Just hanging at the house, or out for a walk.
I created a private YouTube channel and uploaded dozens of videos when they were little. We get a huge kick out of watching those videos all these years later.

Be their parent first, and their friend second. I see too many parents try and be their children’s best friend. Don’t be the travel ball parent that needs to dress, have the newest, and coolest stuff just to keep up with the others.

Teach them to be their own person, and not care about what everyone else is doing, or acting like.

When they are watching tv, turn on the closed captioning. Believe it or not, it helps teach them to read.

Finally, enjoy every second you can with them. They grow up too fast, and you’ll blink and they’re in high school. Spend every minute you can with them. Don’t put work or anything else before them.

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There is a special bond between grandparents and grandkids that is incredibly underrated.

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Being half-adopted, I had 3 sets of grandparents. All 3 grandfathers were amongst the best men I'd even known and they can't even hold a candle to my grandmothers.