Over 15 years, I interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs and their parents to learn how they were raised.
On the whole, these families are very happy with how their kids turned out. The parents say their grown children are not only accomplished and financially successful, but generous and kind. But looking back now, so many of the parents told me there were several things they wished they had known while their children were growing up.
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These aren’t the same as their regrets. Still, the parents shared with me that, with this knowledge, they might have focused on different things or stressed less about what would become their children’s bright futures.
Here are the four things they would go back and tell themselves as young parents.
1. ‘Don’t panic if they don’t finish college’
Most of the parents I spoke to believed that a college degree …