Strict ParentsI always thought my parents were quite strict, but I can't think of anything they actually banned me from doing, whereas a good friend was under no circumstances allowed to watch ITV because of the adverts.
This week's Time Out mentions some poor sod who was banned from sitting in the aisle seats at cinemas because, according to their mother, "drug dealers patrol the aisles, injecting people in the arm."
What were you banned from doing as a kid by loopy parents?
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chthonic, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 12:37)
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My parents were never that strict...... with me, but if i crossed the line I'd get a good horse cropping when my father got home.
Problem was if me and my brother had both stored up a horse cropping it could go on for some considerable time. Becuase as he was getting bent over my father's knee and cropped, I'd be laughing. Then, when it was my turn to get hit, my brother would start laughing, which meant that he would get another cropping which I wouldn't be able not to laugh at, which would mean me getting another go which my brother would laugh at.....etc..etc..etc...
I can remember one instance when this repeated at least 5 times.
But my parents weren't really that strict, in fact they were really supportive of most of what my brother and me got up to, well the stuff they knew about anyway!
With my own three kids I like to think I've trained them to understand the 3 strikes and you're out system. I tell them to do what I want three times, the tone changes and rises each time so they know I'm not mucking about. Then , if they are still refusing to obey it's no holds barred and an unpleasant experience hits them like a thunderstorm, like being dragged up to their room by their arm, and I mean dragged, all the way up the bumpy staircase bouncing off the walls on the way!
Sounds harsh, and i don't like doing it, actually feel guilty as hell, but they have learned to recognise the tone and that I'm not pissing about, so after using the 3 strikes and you're out only a couple of times they learn that they can dick around and enjoy themselves, but they also know when they are starting to push it and to calm down when told! Seems to have worked, my kids are the best kids in the world!
Unlike most other kids you see out and about where they're running around, being obnoxious and rude and refusing to do anything anybody is telling them, especially their parents. I tell you, if it was up to me the parents of these children would be taught the 3 strikes rule...by using the 3 strike rule on them!!!
Bah humbug!
Bring back corporal punishment...never did me any harm!!!
How old I am sounding, jees!
(, Thu 15 Mar 2007, 10:50, Reply)
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