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airehead
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 Posted: 09/05/05 - 23:03 Post subject: Shocked and awed...
at your parents. What things did your parents allow you to do as a child, that now, looking back sends shivers down your back? And, on the reverse, what things did they NOT let you do that you still don't understand?
Me: my parents let me ride for hours on bike throughout our entire subdivision. "Just be home by dinner...." 
Looking back--that was not a good thing.
And on the reverse: they never let me listen to rock music. I still don't understand really. My brother used to listen to KISS and other "evil" music and caused my parents lots of problems, so, kneejerk reaction, I never got to listen to ANY rock music.
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andydp
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 06:48 Post subject:
Being raised by an Italian mother you realize the apron strings are made of titanium and will not rot away nor be broken easily. This is probably the main reason I went away to college.
Just name something done by normal kids and I probably was not allowed to do it.
I did get to watch the Three Stooges, and listen to music I liked.
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j1miller
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 09:22 Post subject:
we left the house at about 9am, came home for lunch when the bell rang, left again, came home at 6 when the bell rang, left again and come home for baths at 8:30... We were either on our bikes or in the woods. We were never in sight, could be miles away. As long as we could here the bell we were fine.
We never got in trouble and never talked to strangers.
No way would I let my kids do it in this world!
I was not allowed to watch wrestling, though, or cartoons.
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kristin31
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 09:30 Post subject:
We weren't allowed to watch much TV. Interestingly enough, we could read whatever we wanted, pretty much. My parents would sign for books from the "adult" (no , not THAT kind of adult) section for us at the library.
The pool and bicycles were pretty much the babysitter all day long and evening long in the summer.
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 09:53 Post subject:
Being the oldest, I was not allowed to do much.
My siblings were all younger than me, and I was a designated babysitter most of my teenage years.
My younger siblings got to do so much more things with their friends than I did. Basically, if I wasn't in an activity, I didn't get to go out.
It wasn't necessarily a bad thing, it kept me out of trouble. But as they got older, they relaxed and realized we were good kids, and my bros and sisters had many more friends than I did.
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 10:57 Post subject:
I was the baby of my mother's 5. The only product of my parents.
We lived in the rural area of Coweta. Coweta was a town of about 3,500 and 25 miles from Tulsa via a two lane road. We lived on an acre and the nearest kid was 3/4 mile away. She moved away after two years and some other kids moved in. I skipped school with them in 3rd grade and wasn't allowed to play with them anymore. Basically I was alone as a child 
Mom wouldn't allowed to go to the movie theatre downtown by myself (Dad would have dropped me off to see like Bambi). Dad would have let me.
I wasn't allowed to watch cartoons before school. I wasn't allowed to leave the yard for very long. I did build a fort across the dirt road on the embankment with the kids I skipped school with.
I like to tease my parents that I was sorely mistreated as a child and wasn't allowed to do anything at all.
Of course, it wasn't true. My daughter thinks the same thing.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 11:18 Post subject:
i think what is most "shocking" to me is that i (we) could and would leave the house in the mornings, check in for lunch and then be gone again until dinner with no problem.
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airehead
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 11:24 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | | i think what is most "shocking" to me is that i (we) could and would leave the house in the mornings, check in for lunch and then be gone again until dinner with no problem. |
Wasn't that freakin' unreal????
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robp
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 11:27 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | | i think what is most "shocking" to me is that i (we) could and would leave the house in the mornings, check in for lunch and then be gone again until dinner with no problem. |
Same here. My buddy and I would go on bike hikes during the summer of my middle school years. We'd go 20-30 miles some days, taking backpacks with food and pop. We camped out a lot during the summer and raised hell, got drunk and acted like imbeciles w/o our parents knowing anything was up.
Once incident brought the suspicions though. We were camping out one night and out roaming the town around 11 pm. Unbeknownst to us there was also a tornado warning in effect. Our parents ran down to our campsite to retrieve us and then spent the next hour cruising around looking for us. We were hiding in some bushes when I saw my dad's car go by and I looked at my buddy and said "uh oh, we're in deep crap now".... Grounded from campouts the rest of that unfortunate summer.
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jrjo
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 11:27 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | rolling rock wrote: | | i think what is most "shocking" to me is that i (we) could and would leave the house in the mornings, check in for lunch and then be gone again until dinner with no problem. |
Wasn't that freakin' unreal????
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Without a cellphone?!?!? 
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rolling rock
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 11:28 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | rolling rock wrote: | | i think what is most "shocking" to me is that i (we) could and would leave the house in the mornings, check in for lunch and then be gone again until dinner with no problem. |
Wasn't that freakin' unreal????
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i can't begin to imagine my daughter disappearing on her bike for 4 hours today. 
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airehead
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 11:29 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | rolling rock wrote: | | i think what is most "shocking" to me is that i (we) could and would leave the house in the mornings, check in for lunch and then be gone again until dinner with no problem. |
Wasn't that freakin' unreal????
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Without a cellphone?!?!? |
No kidding! 
If my parents knew some of the pervs that I ran into in my daily jaunts thru the hood---they would blanche.
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monk25
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 11:30 Post subject:
Used to get on my bike at 8 am, maybe check in for lunch, and be home by dinner. Can't really do that for my kids in this day and age.
One thing my mom did which looking back was pretty clever, let me have beer in my house at age 18 (drinking age was already 21 at that point). Kept me home instead of in parking lots and other hidden places where I could really get into trouble.
She did not think that the drinking age at 21 made any sense if I could already enlist in the military.
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 13:15 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | we left the house at about 9am, came home for lunch when the bell rang, left again, came home at 6 when the bell rang, left again and come home for baths at 8:30... We were either on our bikes or in the woods. We were never in sight, could be miles away. As long as we could here the bell we were fine. |
We had about the same childhood. The only real thing that kept us closer to home alot was our yard was the center of the neighborhood for football games, hide and seek, etc...
I just can't see having such a loose leash with my boys, especially living in the 'city' - I was out in farmlands...
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MW
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Posted: 09/06/05 - 16:27 Post subject:
I was a city kid, and I was allowed to walk to and from school (about a mile). Usually, my sister was with me, but not always. I used to be the dare taker in the neighborhood, (big surprise huh) which meant that whatever positive energy surrounded me must have been pretty damn strong because there were times that I should have been:
1. kidnapped
2. bruised and bloody from a fall from great heights
3. Ill from checking out dumpsters for cool stuff.
The first time I ever saw a woman's parts was in a dirty magazine I found behing a dance club in our neighborhood, along with some woman's purse which I imagine was stolen and then dumped.
We were sent out at Christmas time with 20 bucks to buy presents for our family and my sister and I covered the city. I was taking busses on my own by 12 or 13. Once I walked all the way down the tracks into town instead of taking the bus.
I used to play slap and tickle with the boys in the woods near my house.
And despite all of that, I felt safer out there in the wild world than I did at home. Bizarre.
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