• I like to chat with other moms when I travel. I've received some of the best parenting tips that way. • These strangers' advice has helped me learn to accept my supporting role as a mom. • It's also taught me how to be more present for my kids now and worry less about their future.

I travel often, and whenever I do, I always ask moms of older kids (teens and older) the same question: Looking back, what are you grateful for that you did as a mom, and what would you have done differently?

Perhaps because I'll likely never see these women again, I feel like they are always super honest with their response.

One woman told me I should ask my own mom, but I told her the reason I ask other moms is because my mom was diagnosed with dementia as soon as I had my first son.

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