I wouldn’t be a teenager again for all the money and chocolate in the world. I can’t recall a more insecure, more angst-ridden time in my life aside from those first few weeks after having my first child.
It would have helped if I’d known a few things. I was so easily influenced by anything anyone said and did as long as it wasn’t coming from my parents because as far as I was concerned, they knew nothing. I was so quick to believe bad things about myself rather than good. I wasted so much time dreaming, worrying and experimenting instead of just enjoying my last responsibility-free years.
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Here are the 8 things I wish I knew when I was 15. Now, all I need is to find me a time machine…
1. I wish I’d known that my parents advice was spot on.
My parent are pretty smart. Who knew? I constantly flash back to the advice they gave me and wish I’d listened. They had lived such amazing lives before having children. I should have asked them to tell me everything. I should have listened harder when they were trying to explain something to me. My dad told me to be proud of who I was, to stop trying to change myself and just accept myself for who I was. My mum told me about having to leave school in Year 8 to help the family, how I should be happy I was being given the opportunity to get the education she never had.
Why didn’t I listen? I want to slap myself upside on the head.