Crazy shit your parents did
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Does it make you then wonder why some people are so opposed to spanking now? |
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Like many others, lots and lots of physical abuse. Belts, hairbrushes, hands, fists. More than once a teacher would ask about a bruise on my face. When I got older it was punches, and a few times my mom pushed us down the stairs. My dad whipped us with towels (really painful) and the belt buckle of the belt. He would smoke pot and drive with the windows rolled up. Driving drunk was never a problem for either parent.
My parents idea of quality time was putting us in the guest room with the TV on all day. Or we were allowed to play on the street on our bikes, totally unsupervised. We only went to the doctor or dentist when we absolutely had to - it was considered too expensive. My parents wore only designer clothes and expensive shoes and flew only first class (we were dumped in Coach with me, the eldest, watching a 4 and 5 year old). I broke my finger and it was never set. My sister's school nurse told my mom she had broken her big toe - my poor sister hobbled around on a broken foot for a painful week. Any accident we had (like knocking over milk or falling) warranted a hard smack. My mom left us in hot cars (I could open the door, so it was also unlocked) for hours while she shopped. I never wore a seatbealt, and usually sat in the front seat. My sisters stopped using carseats once they were toddlers. We drank gallons of lemonade, but were prohibited drinking milk for some reason (supposedly it made you fat?). During vacations we were kicked outside to wait until my parents were done getting high and having sex. We could see them. My dad was 35 and my mom was 20. Both college educated, upper middle class. Like many others, they lost interest in kids around the time I turned 5. Of course they had three kids by then. They have little interest in their grandkids besides cute photographs they can display. When asked about my sisters and I (all successful), they take credit for everything but say that they did it all for us. In reality, my parents didnt want me doing any extracurricular activities because it meant picking me up (I wasn't allowed to drive since "My car is too nice and you're too dumb"). |
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That's true. Sometimes when I'm stressed out with parenting my one toddler in the suburbs, I think about the fact that by the time my mother was my age (34) she had four kids ages 12, 8, 8, and 3, a medical degree and was living in Africa. |
Anonymous
Forgot to mention we also were called hookers like other posters. "You look like a hooker with those big boobs" (thanks mom, that's genetics). My dad referred to my sister as a barfly, and mentioned this in her wedding toast. |
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It's a delicacy. Whole Foods charges a premium. |
Anonymous
I would at least do a google "child eating worms", but if it is fine, I'd probably be okay with it too. |
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AHHHH DON'T EAT WORMS http://www.improbable.com/2012/08/01/medical-reasons-not-to-ingest-living-earthworms-and-geckos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ImprobableResearch+%28Improbable+Research%29 This case report, published July 18 in the Journal of Medical Case Reports, describes a 21-year-old male patient infected with baby parasitic worms. These baby worms never grow up, but they travel through the persons' body and cause problems, the paper explains: "Because humans are unsuitable hosts for larval helminths, the parasites, once entering, migrate without growing among the various organs, such as the liver, lungs, brain and eyes, leading to tissue damage and inflammation." The infection resulted in fatigue and what the describing doctors call "wordlessness" for more than a year. He also had lesions on his liver. It's tough to diagnose these infections because the worms are so small. From the paper: "One year before presentation, suffering from work and love problems, our patient had begun to complain of fatigue accompanied by wordlessness, low mood, occasional vomiting and anorexia. Subsequently, he had been diagnosed with depression disorder and had received antidepression therapy in his native hospital several times, but to little effect." The twist: He picked up these nasty tagalongs by ingesting live earthworms and geckos at the behest of a "witch woman." He picked up multiple parasites from these ingested animals. He went to the witch because the antidepressants weren't working. He turned to a native witch and ingested living earthworms and geckos for 10 days at her suggestion. The doctors, led by Tao Yu of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital in China, treated him with anti-parasite medications. These parasites actually come from the soil on the animals, not the animals themselves, the paper said. "Surprisingly (or not) this isn't the first report of a patient been infected with parasites by eating earthworms. A study published in the journal Pediatrics in 2006 describes a similar infection of a 16-year-old girl after she ate an earthworm on a dare." |
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My dad also let me sit on his lap and steer the car while he was driving, though it was just around her neighborhood. We also rode I the back of his pick up truck all the time. My dad als used to take my sister and I to preschool on his motorcycle. We were 3 and 4 and had no helmets. I would sit in front on the fuel tank and my sister would sit behind him and he'd tie us together with rope so we wouldn't fall off. |
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I let my kids sit on my lap to drive (steer) around the neighborhood. When they misbehave, I might spank them.
So they'll still have a few things to post about on here in 30 years. |
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| PP here. The steering thing I don't think is such a huge deal, but I would NEVER drive my 3 or 4 yo around on a motorcycle! |
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| I have three kids and sparked each of them a single time when they were 4ish. The threat of a spanking from then on out works great. |
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Wow. I thought my childhood was bad until I read this. My parents were just very negligence about hygiene. Our house was full of cockroaches. The roof leaked and so the house was full of mildew. And they were not poor; they could have fixed these things. My dad's father was a construction worker, so this made my dad think he could do home repair work. He also thought it unmanly to hire another man to work on the house. But he was too lazy to do it, and usually did it wrong. Once we decided to replace the forced air heat in our house with forced water, resulting in a flood in every room.
But besides these things, they were good parents. |