In the 16 years I lived with my parents they only took me out to something fun twice - to a funfair, and to a zoo, when I was 8 and 10.
Neither of my parents ever once took me to the playground or park, or swimming pool, to a stately home, theme park, nor for any kind of day out suitable for kids. I was allowed to go but they would not come with me. The only time I left the house with a parent was to go shopping. Mum used to let me bunk off school to help her bring the groceries home on the bus from a street market.
We never spent the night anywhere but at home. We never visited relations as we had none. My dad's parents died long before I was born and his sisters lived abroad. My mum's mum was alive but they fell out before I was born so I never once met her, though she only lived 5 miles away. I had no siblings, no cousins, no aunts or uncles, and therefore this meant there was nobody to visit us, or for us to visit. My parents also had no friends. In 16 years not one person ever visited for a meal or a cuppa. We never had a party or gathering of any kind.
On top of this, my parents never did anything with me: never read me a bedtime story, never played a game, never taught me anything. I was just kind of "there", like a cat or a goldfish or a plant -- yes they fed and watered me, but that is where it ended. They both worked full time in blue collar jobs and all their time at home was spent either in household chores or watching TV. If I tried to ask anything I was told to "shut up" as they were busy or to "shut up" as they were watching the tv. Throughout my entire childhood they did not own a single book or belong to a library. They never went to the cinema, theatre or anything else.
They never taught me to cook nor how to do any household chore. Mum never taught me anything like personal hygiene or about periods etc. My father did not even teach me his native tongue. Not even one word.
They took zero interest in anything I was doing at school and they never attended anything like sports day or a school art exhibition. They never once walked me to school or collected me - they were both at work at those times, anyway. Even at age 5 I was walking to school alone. Neither parent ever once set foot in any school I attended.
From age 5 to 16, during all school holidays, whether half term or the long summer break I was simply left at home alone whilst they were at work. I was bored much of the time and would do all kinds of naughty things. I was allowed to go out but never had enough money to do much more than go to the park, the lido or just ride around on the buses.
Sometimes I would go to my parents' workplaces to visit them, out of sheer boredom. This involved catching the bus into the city centre. Mum always worked in shops so she could not give me much attention; she'd give me some cash and maybe chocolate or crisps if it was a sweetshop and tell me to keep out of the way of customers. Dad was a chef and he'd let me hang about in his kitchen watching everyone but he was always busy and had no time to attend to me.
We never had a holiday, weekend away or a night away together in my entire childhood.
The only times I ever spent nights away from home was one week on a school geography trip to Surrey when I was 15 and then a few weeks later we visited my dad's birth country, and stayed with his sisters in small, austere council flats. They did not speak our language, so me and mum could not even communicate with them - or anyone else in the country. It was for us just two weeks of listening to people we'd never met gabbing away with dad in a foreign language and we had not a single clue what was being said. I can't call it a holiday because we didn't go out anywhere or do any fun things. Just sat in someone's living room bored shitless whilst dad and his sisters and his bro in laws talked for hours and hours. For the first few days we kept asking dad to translate but it was just too much mental effort for him.