A msg for my kids when they stop taking advice!

Young people are just idiots!
You think you know everything and you don't. You think that your invincible and your not. Try to tell them, they won't believe it, won't listen or believe they're different, that they are the exception.
I know this because that was me!
I've learnt since then, that we will always still be learning. You can never know enough, to act like you know it all.
I was thinking about this after thinking of a friend back when we were 14 and how her boyfriend had tried to tell her he would have supported her had he known she wanted to have a baby. Even though he had another girlfriend who was pregnant he thought he could have two families and be with both, and provide for both.
Clearly he could not comprehend at that time just how much is involved both financially and emotionally or even physically. That he obviously thought he was invincible, when really he was just a clueless testosterone filled young man trying to get away with adultery.
Their really isn't anyway to get a teenager to listen... is their?
Except to tell them your mistakes, fears, worries, regrets and hope that not only will they learn from their own mistakes but from some of ours too. Maybe it would be enough to scare a little sense into some of them and show them that know one is ever the exception and we could never know it all... when their is so much of this world we could learn from.
That, you don't need to make all the mistakes that others already have in order to have learnt your own lesson, learn from mine! Learn from your dads mistakes and from your own as well the "1st time you make them." And try and listen to us if were telling you we know what it's like we mean it, take the valuable advice seriously.
Go on kids! I challenge you to rocket high above your parents make your life the best it possibly can be! Nothing will ever stop you, life may make road blocks for you but their are ways around everything.
And remember that we love you and we only want you to have the best start to life that we can try to help you reach before we are gone and your all on your own to give your children the best start you can offer! XOXOXO Love mum!
Their is still about 6 more years until i will offer this to my eldest to read when she is a pre-teen but I'm getting in early with my thoughts down on paper for the future!