What do you wish you'd learned when you were young?

to f*ck the begrudgers and not to listen to the negative people who seem to delight in knocking your confidence

More power to yer arm OP. Go for it and good luck

The real dangers of smoking and proper financial planning. That s**t should be taught in primary school.

I'm a father of two girls, 4 and 2, they've been up since very early this morning. They won't eat their breakfast, they won't stop fighting..

What I wished I had learned when I was younger is to only consent to nookie with the mrs when she's well on the rag..........











By the way, good luck OP. Fatherhood is a wonderful experience, full of doing wonderful things with your children, teaching them new skills, encouraging them to explore new things and most importantly of all, how to turn on the tv and change the channel to cbeebies/nick jr/disney jr so they get the hell out of your hair for five minutes and let you finish that cup of tea that's gone cold because you were trying to break up a fight over a charlie and lola hairband.


PS. Hope ye have a boy, I hear it's a lot easier.....

What a tracker mortgage was.

theg81der wrote: »

What language thou cause I don`t speak a 2nd language so will have to decide so I can learn?

Where do you want to go?

I would say Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese and Russian for starters.

All infinitely more useful than Irish, which by the way before the usual knobs start having a go, I've nothing against Irish.

Irish.

Abi wrote: »

She can still get pregnant 'on the rag'.

A heck of a lot less likely than the week or two after that though.....:D

As a fella, something that I absolutely do not regret growing up was not getting in to football/gaa/etc. I have many interests but sport is not one of them. My parents nurtured more progressive interests such as technology from a young age & didn't push me to conform to the more stereotypical stuff like playing football when I was a child in the 80s. To that end I am proud of the fact that I don't feel like I need to care about who is going to win the premier league in order to be a man. Thankfully my closest friends were the same. When I think back to how narrow minded some people were about this sort of thing, it's a real shame. Going to the pub on a Saturday to watch teams of men kick a bag of wind around a field & hug eachother helps no one, except perhaps the pub.

However somebody else mentioned martial arts & I definitely agree. A lot to be gained incl. discipline & self confidence. Self defence is secondary.

I think teaching your child to have an open mind & appreciate diversity goes a long way to helping them feel comfortable being themselves when they're older. They should have interests but not be forced to do anything in particular just because it appears to be a popular convention.

I would love to have learned to swim at a young age. I can swim a little bit but not enough to save my life and I would feel like a bit of an eejit going for lessons now.
I would also love to have learned to drive when I was a fearless teen. I dont think I will ever learn now, Im scared ****less of it.

carfiosaoorl wrote: »

I would love to have learned to swim at a young age. I can swim a little bit but not enough to save my life and I would feel like a bit of an eejit going for lessons now.
I would also love to have learned to drive when I was a fearless teen. I dont think I will ever learn now, Im scared ****less of it.

Both are easy, just go for it. I agree driving can be incredibly daunting at first but in fairness you've nothing to lose and so much to gain by having these skills.