Things from your childhood you are still salty over?

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Not winning a running race

I wasn’t allowed a fat Fanny’s t-shirt

Was told off for my FCUK T-shirt

i never won any art competition at school as mine were all far too good to have been really mine, even though my parents couldn’t draw!

i never got my art on Tony hart

i didn’t give up! Ive running a branding agency for 25+ years but it still poses me off that the (in my opinion at 7) crappy art used to get featured.

Being made to do textiles at school instead of wood and metalwork like the boys. I’m only 33 😅

My mother not letting me live with my dad when she kicked him out for some twat who she’s still with I was 10 at the time, now late 50’s
Still haven’t spoken to her since that day!!

Being taken to the hairdressers to have my waist length hair cut into a page boy cut. I was 11 and when I arrived at school the following day the whole of the population of the school yard laughed. I didn’t want my hair cut. My mother did.

I'm 55 and have only found out about Mr. Frosty this past 24 hours... Last year, I found out about a chocolate dispenser toy, which you had to put money in, to get a choc.

Can you tell that we weren't allowed to watch ITV?

Also after wanting a kitten for years, I finally got one. I loved her. Then a week later she went to ‘a farm’. I was 8 and heartbroken. I now as an adult have more cats than ever.

never being taught to knit unlike my older ds

My mum throwing all my books away whilst I was at university.

Being made to run a race at sports day because someone else was off, and I was always crap at running, so I was last by a mile. Parents were laughing at me. I still remember not wanting to run, being made to run, and the shame.

Never once won the egg competition around Easter. There were 3 categories - with help, overall and without help. Every year the winner of ‘without help’ was clearly done by the parents. Every year I did a great job, genuinely without help, and never even came close. I remember the final year of primary school, the actual winner was such low effort it didn’t deserve it at all! I freely admit I am still bitter!

Same here.

i now make icecream and sorbet as a serious hobby. Think about mr frosty it every time I watch my machine churning away. Mum said I’d use Mr frosty once and that it would be a pain to clean, thanks mum, still living the bloody trauma

oh and a keeper

Secondary school, year 7 or year 8, can't remember which. While the boys did football in PE us girls had to do line dancing. I was outraged (although it was actually fun and I turned out to be quite good at it, that didn't diminish my outrage)

I have 4 older brothers, each of them, on their 21st birthday, got photo albums carefully made by my mum covering their childhoods. I was so looking forward to mine when I turned 21 but I didn't get it! It was many years later when my mum finally made one album for me, and then gave me the rest of the photos in a tin.

@Sorbetto I doubt there are many things as easy to clean as just rinsing a Mr Frosty under the tap.

My sister being given money to go to the corner shop to buy us both some chocolate. She bought me a DOUBLE DECKER! 😭

Being the story telling tree and not a dancing girl in junior school play. I had to narrate the whole blooming play 🤣

Don’t teachers do this though because they feel that the high-achieving child has enough endorsement/attention for her abilities due to her high marks, whereas the lower achiever will get more intense pleasure and motivation from the recognition? I’m not saying I agree - a prize is a prize is a prize - but at least it might not have been as personal as otherwise!

My sister getting the bike I wanted for Christmas, but being told they couldn't afford to get it for me. I got a much cheaper one.

Not being allowed to go to brownies...took all my kids through beavers, cubs and scouts to make up for it!

Snap. Oh have you had your hair cut shorter this time. Nope, same length mum.

It's not too late for you to learn an instrument now. It's good for the brain for it to be forced to learn new things. Why not give it a go?

I feel this one. For some reason my mother has decided that short hair looks better on me (she still comments on my hair these days!). When I was 10 she took me to the hairdressers to have my hair cut short, and because I have curls I looked like a sheep.

Irritated. Hacked off.

Not having piano lessons that I was desperate for.
Ditto ballet & tap lessons.
Not having any books in the house.
Not being a member of the children's library.
Not being allowed long hair.
Being smacked.
Being afraid of my volatile, verbally abusive father.
Living within my parents' toxic, dysfunctional relationship.

Not being given proper dental treatment. I’ve got a huge gap in my two front teeth as a result that would now be painful and very costly to fix and its knocked my confidence my whole life. My mum wouldn’t take me to the dentist because she is scared of the dentist.

Mine is that no one ever had a chat with me about shaving. It was only because my friend helped me to buy a razor that I knew to shave my legs.