My parents tried to murder me.

koosdel

So I was watching a YouTube video where these guys fall out of a truck, and for some reason it reminded me of my childhood.

Pretty sure my parents didn't like me... I mean, I ate raw cookie doe, rare beef, we played lawn darts, had no idea what a seat belt was, rode in the bed of a pick up, went boating without like preservers, they made me push now the whole yard. I think I was the only 8 year old around that could drive a mule team. I had to cut tobacco until I puked, haul hay, shoot pigs in the head, strangle chickens to death. I ate mercury fish from the lake. There was a loaded M1 carbine in the kitchen, WITH OUT A TRIGGER LOCK! They wouldn't let me watch TV after 8 o'clock, I got a rope for Christmas one year. No matter bow hot, or cold, or rainy it was I had to go outside and play.

Yup. They was trying to off me for sure.

KristenAnn711

Totally

Heather75

My dad used to let us ride in an open trailer on the hilly and winding roads on the way to the cottage. I think some of the dishes my mom had contained lead, too. It's a miracle we survived.

kelligonzales

ha ha ha i know right, I grew up in alaska and had to walk ALL BY MYSELF to the bus!

rileamoyer

Are you sure you are 62 instead of 32? Sounds a lot like childhood in my day too. LoL

Shannon023

:laugh:

I say you sue them!

cheshirequeen

ahhh lawn darts. those were the good old days. i never got hurt though with those toys, i get hurt from 2 year olds toys though. even lincoln logs were better. those things are plastic now. i miss the wood ones.

MAK_01

Parent's aren't supposed to do those things?
My siblings and I would literally crawl between the back and the "way back" (old school station wagon) while the car was moving. No seat belts, no car seats. We had a chemistry set, that we played with without supervision. And my favorite game was hi-ho Cherrio, with the small plastic cherries, can you say choking potential.

Now those were some good times!

bachooka

I used to walk to school with my two younger siblings when I was 8 years old! they were 6 and 5... now I am hard pressed to find a 17 year old who isn't driven to school everyday... it wasn't a short walk either... lol

DarkAngel864

I think all that is code for NOT SPOILED like alot of kids are today :laugh:

I didn't live on a farm, so that stuff didn't apply, but my mom would literally lock us out until dinner time. She would cook, clean, take a shower (god forbid!)

Just the good life

Sherry1979

Sounds like my childhood. . a while ago (when I wasn't using MFP the way I should. . oops :embarassed: ) I was making chocolate chip cookies & got me a big spoonful of the dough. . .my FAVORITE part, when my husband said "don't you know that can kill you??" My response. . .I've did it all my life and it's not killed me yet and if I die at least I'll die happy. . .lol (Of course I was just kidding, I am not wanting to die anytime soon!!) But yeah, I can relate. . .and the seatbelts. . lol. I remember Dad getting pulled over by a State Trooper once on the way home from the grocery store in our Pinto. . .family of 5 I might add. . .lol My sis was a toddler & the Trooper said something about her not being in a carseat. . .she was sitting on a big bag of potatoes. ..:laugh: BUT Dad didn't get a ticket. .so the potatoes must have been safe enough!! Thanks for posting this. . .it sure brought back some memories! :happy:

donicagalek

And they never fed you those cigarettes that you so desperately needed. I think a call to CPS is in order.

rroman24

Hahahaha if Jeff Foxworthy read this he'd just say "if you've experienced these thigs, you're a redneck" LOL

skinnylizzard

I remember riding in the back of the pick-up truck! Hahahahaha!!!
We used to be outside all day, running around in the woods or swimming in the chuck! We were just little but nobody knew where we were for hours at a time! I never got an allowance, if I wanted new jeans I had to chop gooey ducks for bait for my dad's prawn boat ans earn $1 an hour! Mind you, jeans back then were only about $25 and a pack of smokes was $1:25!!! Yes, were were in the woods smoking, the guy that ran the corner store had no problem keeping our secret! Hahahaha!! Ah! Those were the days!!!!

zave

I remember playing tackle football on a asphalt playground surface. Which also triggers a lot of memories of crying a lot as a child.

binary_jester

Pfft...my minister tried to drown me when I was 5.

Know you know why I am an atheist.

DyannAlvarez

Thank God our children are spared so much torture - they've got the ACLU! See how much better off they all are??? :laugh: I don't know how we all survived. Oprah helps alot and Dr. Phil! :laugh:

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SamiSamiBoBlammy

I remember in the summer, everyday I would leave the house as soon as I woke up (sometimes even before my parents) and me and friends would just walk around town, and swim in the creek on the edge of town, and *gasp* talk to strangers all the time. I wouldn't get home until right at dark and my parents wouldn't ever even ask what I did that day.

My parents had no idea where I was or IF I was. If I had been kidnapped or murdered - they probably wouldn't have found out until at least the next day, they would've assumed that I just slept over with someone.

The didn't have phone numbers to any of my friends parents, and there were no cellphones. How in the world did we all make it to adulthood?

I'm now one of the most over-protective mothers on the planet... my poor kids don't get to experience much without me knowing *sigh*

laughingdani

I was a "latch-key" kid when I was 5 years old!!! :noway: What were my parents thinking?

kelligonzales

Pfft...my minister tried to drown me when I was 5.

Know you know why I am an atheist.

ha ha ha ha well i guess that would do it.

AmberLiscous

lol....yup that sounds about right....i was just talking to someone the other day about not wearing seat belts when we were little

Coyla

I remember being packed in the back of my parents' hatchback, all four of us kids, without seatbelts OR car seats. We also lived by a highway, and we'd play out there without supervision for hours at a time. I think my mom and dad had it in for us. But, then, with four rowdy kids, who can blame them?

Still, somehow we made it out of childhood alive.

My brother DID break his arm sledding off the garage roof, but that's another story. Stupid is stupid, and that was stupid.

I think it's time we develop kid-sized hamster balls wrapped in kevlar. I mean, how protected ARE our children?

joycemhall

we used to stand up in the back of the truck bed while Dad drove down the gravel roads, or we'd sit on the tailgate & try to drag out feet. We ran all over the countryside with the snakes & coyotes and never thought twice about playing in the pasture. If the bull acted like he was gonna take us, we'd jump in a washed out ditch til he left. When Mom wanted us to come home, she'd holler out the back door for us & we'd straggle home eventually. Out of 7 kids, we all survived, and only had 1 snake bite LOL

lilac67

I may be alone in this, but I loved riding my bike with no helmet, walking home from school w/o my mom, sitting in the front seat of the car, riding my bike to the store to spend my allowance, and riding the bus to the mall when I was about 11. I knew to be respectful of people, not to talk back to my elders, to behave away from the house, because other people would call your mom on you. I wish my kids would have been able to experience that kind of "freedom". Now our kids live with us well in to their 20's and expect a handout. I guess I am getting old. lol!

samantharae121205

So I was watching a YouTube video where these guys fall out of a truck, and for some reason it reminded me of my childhood.

Pretty sure my parents didn't like me... I mean, I ate raw cookie doe, rare beef, we played lawn darts, had no idea what a seat belt was, rode in the bed of a pick up, went boating without like preservers, they made me push now the whole yard. I think I was the only 8 year old around that could drive a mule team. I had to cut tobacco until I puked, haul hay, shoot pigs in the head, strangle chickens to death. I ate mercury fish from the lake. There was a loaded M1 carbine in the kitchen, WITH OUT A TRIGGER LOCK! They wouldn't let me watch TV after 8 o'clock, I got a rope for Christmas one year. No matter bow hot, or cold, or rainy it was I had to go outside and play.

Yup. They was trying to off me for sure.

just b/c you didnt get every thing you wanted as a child and did things you didnt want to do doesnt mean your parents tried to murder you or disliked you!! what child doesnt like raw cookie doe!! and who the hell wore seatbelts that long ago!?!?. all those things your complainging about are called CHORES which every child should have (maybe not soo many but tht was then and this is now) no TV after 8 sounds good to me. 9 was my bedtime. (lights from a tv/comp trigger your brain tht its NOT bedtime and wont be soon) stop feeling sorry for yourself and be happy you had parents tht raised you. BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW BAD YOU THINK YOU HAD IT, THERES ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO HAD IT WORSE!!. k.

ajbeans

haha... a rope for Christmas. That's awesome.

You think your parents were bad? Not only did my parents not make me wear a seat belt, but they had me STAND UP in the center of the front bench seat so I didn't puke in the car. If we would have wrecked, I would have been the first to go. Yeah, they were definitely out to get me.

binary_jester

My car seat as an infant was a laundry basket. When I was a kid, roaming without a car seat, I didn't fear an accident, I feared my mom with a flyswatter.

Rebeccasluckyduck

Sometimes it makes me sad that my kids can't have SOME of the experiences I had. There's no way I would like them to experience all of it.

I grew up out in the boonies and had to walk 3 miles down a dirt road with my brother to get to our bus stop. Some days we would stop and swim in the creek on the way home, cut through the fields and look for snakes, or who knows what. Nobody ever knew where we were or what was going on.

By the time I was in high school we live in another small town, but this one had paved roads. I had a boy walk me home from school and my mother had 3 phone calls before we made it home telling her all about it.

So in small towns either nobody knows your business, or EVERYBODY knows your business. :noway:

That was just the way of life. And look, we turned out "relatively" normal.

ajbeans

My car seat as an infant was a laundry basket. When I was a kid, roaming without a car seat, I didn't fear an accident, I feared my mom with a flyswatter.

You had a car seat? Wow, your parents must have spoiled you rotten.

samantharae121205

I may be alone in this, but I loved riding my bike with no helmet, walking home from school w/o my mom, sitting in the front seat of the car, riding my bike to the store to spend my allowance, and riding the bus to the mall when I was about 11. I knew to be respectful of people, not to talk back to my elders, to behave away from the house, because other people would call your mom on you. I wish my kids would have been able to experience that kind of "freedom". Now our kids live with us well in to their 20's and expect a handout. I guess I am getting old. lol!

thank you!! i believe i wouldnt be the strong independant women i am today if it wasnt for the way i was raised. of course i didnt like it (they were rules, lol. no one likes rule) but never would i talk down on my parents. this post kinda upset me.