My parents tried to murder me.

joycemhall

LOL@ fly swatter! We had to cut out own switches out of an oak tree. If they weren't big enough, she'd make us go get a bigger one

Gogo76

LOL...I was driving a tractor when I was 7 and I learned how to drive the stick shift pick up truck as soon as I could reach the pedals. I didn't even know that cars were supposed to have seatbelts until I took drivers ed (which was required by the state for me to get my DL even tho I already had been driving for almost 6 years!!)

Cristy_AZ

Ha!! Me too!! I walked alone, in bare feet and a bathing suit from my house to the YMCA. I ate snow cones, then went straight into the pool. I rode my bike all over the neighborhood without helmet or knee pads. And I love the comment about crawling between the back and the "way back" in the station wagon. Yup! Been there done that and went all the way from Arizona to Indiana in the back seat with no seatbelts!! I also did my own laundry by the time I was 10 and caught, cleaned, cooked and ate my own fish on camping trips!! Oh and we played all over the neighborhood without cell phones to check in with our parents and when the street lights came on we knew it was time to wander towards home. :-D

hroush

Sounds familiar.

cdngirl71

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.

:laugh: :laugh: Mine was my mom with her wooden spoon, LOL

lilac67

LOL...I was driving a tractor when I was 7 and I learned how to drive the stick shift pick up truck as soon as I could reach the pedals. I didn't even know that cars were supposed to have seatbelts until I took drivers ed (which was required by the state for me to get my DL even tho I already had been driving for almost 6 years!!)

Yep, that was the life--before we had this super-anal political correctness stuff pushed on us!

jacquejl

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.

I think you misunderstood the original post.

NatalieWinning

Haha! I have a picture of myself holding a live possum my Dad and his brothers cought when I was 3! It was jumping out of my arms scratching me up! We were left home alone while my Mom worked because my Hyper ADD brother ran off all babysitters. He would wrestle me in serious sibling fights before he climbed up on the roof to chill (at 6-8 yrs old). My Dad was asleep because he worked midnights, which made it okay. Right? And I used to hang out the window at the gas station smelling the leaded gas! Both parents chain smoked in the car with windows rolled up, though, when the car was moving. Every single winter, the whole entire winter I was really sick with asthma, ear infections, you name it. My eardrums are scared so that i have a hearing loss! Yet they piled wool blankets on me (allergy) let the dog lay down with me (allergy) and kept me inside (smoking and mold) until summer where I learned I loved being outdoors where I felt like I could breath, and thought I had clostrophobia inside (cause I was not dying outside). My Mom was always on a diet so we had very little fruits, dairy, and only "diet" food. While my Dad was from the south and insisted all food was fried with a grease gravy topping and a side of only fatty things.

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!

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.

I think you misunderstood the original post.

I got it, but this is my take on it!

Sherry1979

Okay, maybe I'm wrong but I totally took this post as the original poster being funny & NOT literally accusing their parents of trying to murder them!!! Geez!!!! It's sure gave me some laughs this morning and in no way has upset me!!! :flowerforyou:

Heather75

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.

:laugh: :laugh: Mine was my mom with her wooden spoon, LOL

I never saw my mom use that wooden spoon for cooking.

mommared53

I hear ya! My parents made us ride in the back of the truck too. And we played in the weeds, the tops of trees, jumped off our (one story) house, played in my uncle's pig pen and pastures, and grain silos, our coal house, all kinds of dirty, filthy places and never heard of hand sanitizers. It's a complete miracle I reached the age of 57. And not only that, my mean mother, had the nerve to make me eat food I hated. HOMINY!!! I knew that stuff was going to kill me some day and my mom would be so sorry. Or I would freeze to death (in Missouri) on the way out to the coal house to get coal at night and when I didn't come back eventually she would come looking for me and find me frozen solid. And the school was just as bad. Why when I was in grade school (in a little tiny town in northern Missouri) if one of us got a spanking at school. (yup, that was allowed) we would have gotten another spanking at home! WHAT! My mother would have sided with the teacher!! And soap in the mouth for cussing! We could have been poisened by having to injest Ivory soap! And Bibles in the school!! We not only had Bibles in the school but we were forced to go door to door and sell Bible pictures. I actually won a King James version Bible one year for being forced to sell the most Bible pictures. Talk about child labor laws being broken! As I recall, I don't think it occurred to anyone to be offended by it. Where was the ACLU back then when we needed them? Oh I could go on and on but I have to get down on my knees right now and thank God for giving me the mean parents He did. Ooops, I hope I don't get this thread locked because someone gets offended for using God's name here.

FitJoani

I think it makes people tougher when they get older. Everyone is a bunch of pansies now. I too had to always play. I went sledriding down a hill that is now "forbidden" heck we dropped water on it to make it icy. I rode my bike down huge hills, flipped over the handle bars and got told to "not cry" ahhh back in the day :laugh:

Cristy_AZ

Just have to add to this because my co-worker who is a new mom was just talking about taking her baby to the doctor (YES, the Doctor) to get his fingernails clipped and how she has a hard time keeping his little mittens on in his car seat because she does not want him to scratch his face (he's 4 months old). Makes me think of the stories my husband tells of him and his cousins when they were little if any one of them got sick with chicken pocks or mumps (really?? he tells it that way!) or anything contagious they'd all have to go and bunk with them so they'd all get sick at once and "get it over with"!! Yup, guess his parents tried and amazingly did not succeed in murdering him too!!

TK266

I love the subtle "kids today have it to easy today" rants. It is such fresh ground to plow. Here are a couple of my favorite quotes on the subject. It is such fresh ground to plow


"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" (Socrates 3rd century BC)

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" (Hesiod, 8th century BC).

joycemhall

That possum comment made me remember I had a pet possum when I was in 4th grade. I took it to school for show and tell.

And 3 of us kids slept upstairs where there was no heat. We slept under piles of blankets & there was ice on the insides of the windows

cdngirl71

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.

:laugh: :laugh: Mine was my mom with her wooden spoon, LOL

I never saw my mom use that wooden spoon for cooking.

Neither did I, LOL. She would just go to the drawer and I would start running, :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

SamiSamiBoBlammy

Wow, reading these posts almost makes me want to cancel our daycare contract and force my kids to ride the bus home and fend for themselves in the afternoons... how bad can it be?

JoyceJoanne

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.

My mom ALWAYS had a wooden spoon with her!! In the car, in her purse... you name it. and then there was her shoe...
When I was about 8, I was in charge of waking my 3 yr old brother up, getting him dressed for the babysitter, WALK him to the babysitter while I went to school. Picked him up on my way home from school, started dinner, wash the dishes that were in the sink (by hand! *gasp*) and do a load of laundry before my mom got home. Often if she worked overtime (she did it as often as poss- to get extra money) I would have to feed him and sometimes bathe him and put him to bed. My older brother (14) played sports and had a girlfriend so he was hardly home....
WTF??!! Can you IMAGINE if we did that now??!!

I remember we used to take road trips in our station wagon with family friends: 2 moms, 8 (yes 8) kids, a GIANT slobbery st. bernard and all of our camping gear... and NO air!! Windows down.. We'd drive like that for 6-8 hours.... I have NO idea how we survived those days!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

koosdel

I'm loving these stories! Awesome!

I can remember exactly what my dad said when he took the rope away, " Your momma always dropping things" I think that may have been a reference to brain damage.

We had this idiotic game called superman. We would tie our ankles together and run through the woods. The first one to fall won. Or maybe lost? I don't remember.

MightyMae1

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.

Dear Samantharae121: It's humor (a.k.a sarcasm). He's not seriously implying that his parents mistreated him.

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.

My mom ALWAYS had a wooden spoon with her!! In the car, in her purse... you name it. and then there was her shoe...
When I was about 8, I was in charge of waking my 3 yr old brother up, getting him dressed for the babysitter, WALK him to the babysitter while I went to school. Picked him up on my way home from school, started dinner, wash the dishes that were in the sink (by hand! *gasp*) and do a load of laundry before my mom got home. Often if she worked overtime (she did it as often as poss- to get extra money) I would have to feed him and sometimes bathe him and put him to bed. My older brother (14) played sports and had a girlfriend so he was hardly home....
WTF??!! Can you IMAGINE if we did that now??!!

I remember we used to take road trips in our station wagon with family friends: 2 moms, 8 (yes 8) kids, a GIANT slobbery st. bernard and all of our camping gear... and NO air!! Windows down.. We'd drive like that for 6-8 hours.... I have NO idea how we survived those days!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

The station wagon was an amazing playground on long family trips (I was an only child so I had it all to myself). Only time it was a curse was when it was the vehicle they wanted you to use on dates (hinting that the seats folded down pretty much nixed that idea though).

JoyceJoanne

OH! And what about the 4th of July fireworks??!! Remember the sparklers on the wires??? How many of you have scars on your feet because when we ran around barefoot while playing with them we stepped on a hot one that was left (thrown) on the ground??!!
MAN I MISS THOSE!!

elvb

I love these stories of "back in the day"!!
I remember putting on my bathing suit at night when I was 5-6 yrs old, and running up and down the street in the middle of a summer thunderstorm! Every time the thunder would clap, my brother and I would race back to the covered porch where my parents sat and watched us. I got looked at like I was crazy by my hubby when I suggested our kids go run in the rain. Apparently he was sheltered as a child. :ohwell:

binary_jester

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.

Dear Samantharae121: It's humor (a.k.a sarcasm). He's not seriously implying that his parents mistreated him.

Wow missed that post.

makes me want to

Umm Samantharae121 that last smilie was strictly in humor...I don't really want to slap you. ok maybe a little.

NatalieWinning

We had fireworks on 4th of july, too. The whole month leading up to it we would walk to the store (alone and barely old enough) buy these things, then set them off in our own back yards unsupervised! I was forever trying to save the dogs who kept trying to sniff them as the kids lit them. One kid (I cannot make this up) notoriously put one in his mouth, lit it, and blew up his lips! That never stopped us with our roman candles at 8-9 yrs old!

NatalieWinning

We also sunbathed with baby oil on midday in Mississippi.

cdngirl71

We also sunbathed with baby oil on midday in Mississippi.

:laugh: :laugh: My friends and I did that all the time.

CorydonCutie

Are you my long lost brother??

Phoenix_Rising

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

Know you know why I am an atheist.

Bwahahahahaha!!