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What would you have liked to have known before having children? 
Seriously. For example, I would have liked to have had skills on surviving my marriage after my son was born.
And for those without kids, what do you think you would like to know before having them (besides how to have them, harhar).
Marc
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What I would still like to know is, how do I have a conversation with my wife where we don't talk about the kids?
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Shoes. You can talk to her about shoes -- until, of course, it reaches the point of "I couldn't afford to get [type of shoe] because I had to get [item] for [child's name]"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Which, of course, leads to a discussion of children's shoes.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: how do I have a conversation with my wife where we don't talk about the kids?
Amen to that!
Marc
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When I was married, my wife was a senior level software QA person. So, not only did conversations tend to revolve around the kid, when she got home from work she didn't want to hear about anything that involved computers.
Now I know why the television was invented.
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Give it a few years, once the kids leave home her focus will widen again.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Give it a few years, once the kids leave home her focus will widen again.
Er, yeah.
She'll stop spending energy on making the kids behave the way she wants them to, and focus it on you.
I'm beginning to think that the only winning move is not to play.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Marc Clifton wrote: What would you have liked to have known before having children?
how a condom works ? 
(disclaimer, I don't have kids, and the way things are, I don't think I will  )
I'd rather be phishing!
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The biggest question I had when raising just one child was, "Where the hell did all the hours go today?"
I have no idea how people manage to raise more than one. I'm sure it has something to do with wormholes and a low mileage DeLorean.
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Christopher Duncan wrote: I have no idea how people manage to raise more than one.
It's the inverse of "adding another programmer will not halve the time the project takes." Adding another kid doesn't double the time you spend with them. You just have, well, more expenses.
Marc
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Christopher Duncan wrote: I have no idea how people manage to raise more than one
We only have one ourselves. Given how well our daughter has turned out, and our usual karma, it's a good thing.
If we had a second child they would have been the Antichrist.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Where the mute button was, and where to buy a remote control.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Where the mute button was
Being raised by a German mother, I definitely complied with the "children should be seen, not heard" rule.
Marc
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Whereas the ones in the UK appear to be raised on "children should be obscene, and clearly heard several miles away..." 
I don't have children myself, just children-by-proxy: my two brothers and my sister bred, as did most of my friends. And of course there are the ones in supermarkets...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Dutch - same attitude. I managed to instil that in my kids and it seems to have propagated to the g'kids. I look forward to seeing them twice a year 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I would have liked to have known ... Oh, wait. If my wife finds out what I was about to type, she'd kill me.
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The best advice I have heard from Married Couples with kids is to make sure you have a life apart from your children. Too often then marriage becomes about the kids and then when the kids leave there is no longer a reason for the marriage. Seems reasonable.
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Marc Clifton wrote: What would you have liked to have known before having children?
In my experience, I would have liked to have known a lot more about hormones.
I am much smarter now. 
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: I would have liked to have known a lot more about hormones.
Yours, or your kids?
Marc
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Ha ha yeah well pregnant mother to be and post-partum depression hormones. They are pretty much thermonuclear in both style and content.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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How to fight fairly and picking when to fight!
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Marc Clifton wrote: For example, I would have liked to have had skills on surviving my marriage after my son was born.
This pretty much sums it up for me. In my case it's a daughter.
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Where they came from.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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