There must be people reading this who brought up their children this way. What do they think, reading it back?
Re. pain killers I think my mum would say "you could have just asked for them and I'd have bought them for you". That's absolutely true, she would have done but, at 12 or 13 or 14, I found periods very embarrassing and personal and I hated my mum knowing when I was "on" so actually, no, I didn't find it very easy to ask. Plus, because pain killers were only used when someone was really ill, I didn't know you could just pick them up in Tesco and use them whenever- I thought you had to be at death's door.
Re. drinks I think my mum would say "I didn't want you to spoil your tea because you'd always gulp drinks down". Well, yes, I used to gulp because I was so bloody thirsty. Maybe if I'd had drinks between meals, I wouldn't have been a greedy bugger when it came to drinking.
Re. bags I think people at school (including me) would say "yep, we were twats to each other and about ourselves. Many of the "rules" made life very hard. I don't understand why we cared so much but we did. Hey ho, character building"