If you could give one piece of advice to your children...what would it be?

Plain and simple…Go To College.

Make up your own mind.

Do no harm.

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Be generous.

Edited to add: I also don’t have kids, but it still applies. It’s what I would say, and what I try to teach my younger siblings.

Always be yourself. Even if you think it means I’ll be disappointed, always be yourself.

(I don’t have kids, but I wanted to answer anyway.)

I have 500 kids, they all have six legs, and they hiss when they are annoyed. They don’t listen to anything I tell them, so giving them advice is pointless.

Listen to your Mother!

I’d tell them what I’ve always told them.

Don’t be like me. Be better than me.

LOL does the “Mother’s Curse” count??

You are responsible for your own happiness.

Question Authority but embrace it when it deserves it.

Life is 10% emergencies and 5% broken stuff. Maintain all of it.

Question everything, because when the time comes, you’ll know the answer.

Don’t be like me when I was your age.

Keep your promises.

Figure out what you love to do, then get a job in that field. Better a job you enjoy than one you don’t.

Always do your homework, whether you are in school or not.

Be kind.

Pay attention.

Dream BIG.

Understand that people are who they are and not who you want them to be.

Wear sunscreen.

Never moon a werewolf.

Question everything. Just don’t let it give you a headache.

@AstroChuck – Is that an example of biting satire?

Listen more than you speak. Which is advice I’d give to anyone.

@eponymoushipster nice reference. Too bad it actually causes cancer. Along with everything else these days.

Don’t be an asshole.

@Beta_Orionis what doesn’t? wear sunscreen. use a cell phone.

@MacBean- Like that’s gonna happen.

Think for yourself.
Be kind to other people.
Do something productive every day.

@MacBean That’s probably the most solid advice one could give. Much Lurve!

Time is more valuable than money.

Spend you time on education, health and relationships, and your money on things that make money.

When it comes to decisions, don’t listen to what anyone else says.

Find good people and stick with them; it is not possible to have more than one or two real friends.

Learn one new thing before lunch every day.

Find one thing to treasure in each day.

Question authority, always ask ‘why’ and ‘why not’?, help others, stay both strong and vulnerable, love hard work hard play hard and never look back..start any revolution you want and expect that it won’t be easy..read and never stop learning and remember a life without passion is not worth living…oh and always always use protection

@knitfroggy—I’ve always thought so. It’s basically the Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, most on-the-books laws, and plain old common sense rules all rolled up into four words.

Love the Lord your God with all our heart, and all your soul and all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.

Plead the 5th if you get involved with the police.

Get out.

The only fair thing about life are the choices you get to make.

Learn to love yourself.

Look after the earth around you, and always appreciate what you are given. No matter how big or small.

do you’re homework.

Work REALLY hard and you might succeed.

Don’t lie to your mother

Try not to suck, and don’t not care about what you are doing.

You must actively be learning, be careful, be paying attention because just doing the best you can, doing good things is no guarantee bad things won’t happen to you.

Live each day as if someone is looking over your shoulder!

It is what my grandfather instilled in me and I have done the same with my children…

@sccrowell – my mom gave me that lesson. She would even show up randomly at school and talk to my teachers. We worked in the same department for awhile while I was in college and she would randomly come see me. To this day I think “would I do/say this if my mom were standing right here?”.

It works!

Care for others, and for yourself.
Forgive others, and yourself.
Be tolerant.

@sccrowell you know I could probably never live like that, :)

Don’t eat yellow snow

But my children live in Southern Texas. They don’t know what snow is.

@Darwin they will one day and without that crucial bit of advice… I shudder to think what could happen

No, they won’t as long as they believe my stories of living in New England in February.

But New England has such beautiful weather in February…

Yeah, right. That’s why I know about yellow snow, brown snow, black snow, and just plain nasty, gray snow. I hate February in New England.

Anytime you wonder which choice to make, remember what I told you.

Don’t ever take advantage of a person who has been wonderful to you.

@YARNLADY: I love this one, “anything you say, you’re right”.

My words of wisdom..

Bros before Hoes.

Don’t have children.