Right now you're a mom. What do you want to be when your Kids grow up?

My heart has always belonged to writing. When my kids came along, I began home schooling them, writing most of their curriculum. Over the last year, we have switched geers to un-schooling. (That's a whole nother topic.) So my dream for when they're all "growd" up, is to write curriculm type books geered for un-schoolers, or relaxed home schoolers. In the meantime, I write at evry given opportunity to fine tune my skill.

First, enjoy your kids while you can. They grow up very fast and you can't get a second of it back. Then they are gone and you are saying "where'd the time go?" and then you'll be sorry that you wasted so much time being frustrated about not having "me" time. Once they are gone, you'll have plenty of "me" time to do whatever you want. But while you can be a mom - be one...first and foremost.

I work for myself, so I can always spend time with my son who is now 15 months old. I like to write a lot and wanted become a public speaker when my sons (I'm pregnant again now)is around 10 to 12 years old. First I will travel to many countries and study peoples' behaviour, meet more people and then slowly compile into a book and my speech material. I always dream of standing in front of thousand of people who willing to pay me thousand dollar to listen to my speech, the feeling is like winning Malaysia Idol or maybe much better than that. Of course, if my public speaking is so successful, my book will be selling like those of Dr John Gray and Anthony Robbins...wah....nice feeling right? I'm not only rich but I will also fulfulling my purpose of living.

i am a single mom of four children. they are all teens already and still i cant find time to do what i want. my first son will soon be in college so i need to work harder for them to have good education. all i want now is to see them have good lives be responsible.

I want to be several things. I would love to open and run another Cafe. I have also thought about starting a Party Light, Tupper Ware, Pampered Chef type job. Or if there was a way I could earn a real income off the Net, that would be great too. I am at the stage were my kids are grown, so now what??? Hard to decide still.

hopefully retired in florida somewhere. i have two kids my teenage son who's 4yrs old and my daughter who's 8 yrs old and even though they are good kids they can sometimes be a handful. im raising both bymyself, i work fulltime go to school( to finish my bacholers) and raise my babies. it's so hard especaily when what ever little time i have i want to be with them so we can cacth up and bond and stuff.so i just want to enjoy life after my kids are grown wether thier away at college or married with thier babies.

Right now I am so caught up in my kids and their day-to-day lives that I haven't really thought about myself for a while. I do enjoy riding my horses, and most of the time I can take my kids along to ride too. But I guess if I had more time I'd probably spend more time training my horses and riding them.

I really have never thought about what I'll do when they are all grown up. Hopefully babysit grandbabies! I'm quite happy with the way things are now, so I'm not daydreaming about the future.

The Unsung Hero of our life...We spell it out with M.O.M - magical Mysteries Of Motherhood (MOM). There is the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries in rearing our child and molding them to be the best they can be. And this entails a lot of 'giving up' of moms' and dads' personal time for themselves. Growing together with our kids is just like reparenting the child in us. Our hopes, dreams, learnings and ambitions as parents grows as our kids grow and that should not be suppressed for effectiveness starts from with in ourselves - and one day, when my boy grows to be a fine young man - I see myself as a fulled teacher and an effective friend !

Sometimes it feels like that will never happen! I sometimes feel like I am drowning in being a mum, days just blur into the next day, rounds of nappy changing, school and homework!! Do not get me wrong I am in no rush for my children to grow up but dreams we have for ourselves just go out of the window. I have lots of things that I would like to do, writing is one, then I have lots of other things too, I just wonder if I will have enough time to do everything. I too get frustrated that I cannot do more things that I want to do, but for now it is how it has to be.