Thing your parents did / didnt do when you were a kid that they wouldnt admit to now?

[Loriycs]

my sister got wacked with mums slipper,she remembers it, i remember it but strangely mum doesnt!!

[random]

Sent us to the corner shop to get fags but with a little red book to get them on tick

Cut my waist length blond hair really short because I had nits

Always left us outside shops in our prams and once got all the way home before she realised that she had left my sister outside a shop

Always put vineger in the water when she rinsed our hair ..the smell of it always takes me back to sunday night hairwash night

Hit my brothers with a stick when they were fighting

[Mikafan]

when I was 7 i started sleeepwalking - badly, would even go down several flights of stairs, out the front door, along the road to the zebra crossing and crossed the road (safety consious even when asleep :0 ). I had to go to the Paddington Green Childrens Hospital and I distinctly remember him telling my mum it was stress induced and that they should take me away on holiday (had a week in Margate) but my parents deny he said that. The stress was caused by my dads alcoholism and him coming home drunk every night and causing an argument and then throwing furniture around including out the window

[hifi]

ooh, tales of the unexpected. i still think trees and flowers scream silently if you cut them.

[Loriycs]

Yes hifi . That one has always stayed with me too!!!

[TheCrackFox]

Going on holiday to Wales and mum and dad going to the pub everyday for hours whilst me, bro and sis played outside. They totally deny this one - but all 3 of us remember this.

Being served liver for breakfast because we didn't eat it for dinner. Still didn't eat it for breakfast either.

Only having a bath once a week - we must have stank! On the odd occassion I don't bath the boys after dinner mum makes me feel awful.

[ghosty]

Ha, I remember asking the man at the local garage for my mum's Rothman's Kingsize at the ripe old age of 5

At 8 I knew how to pour a Scotch just the way my dad liked and just how my mum liked it. On a recent visit to my parents we were talking about this and I made the mistake of telling them that DH and I have a much healthier lifestyle than our parents had at the same age. Mum absolutely denied it but then went quiet when I reminded her that she used to have 2 scotches when cooking dinner, another with Dad when he got home, one or two bottles of wine with dinner between them followed by 2 or 3 scotches AFTER dinner .... every night of the week!
They were permanently pissed but not drunk IYSWIM?
No wonder they are now (aged 70) being kept together by the NHS with bits of loo roll and sticky backed plastic
The other thing they can't remember is force feeding me when I didn't like my food .

[Milkysallgone]

This thread is very funny but in places.

My Dad sat me down to watch 'The Excorcist' alone when I was definitely no older than 8 (and I didn't ask to watch it}. Swears blind this isn't true.

Mom used to have daily naps on the sofa leaving me (6) to watch younger baby sister. I once snuk out and crossed our road, and another time left a toy pram in front of the fire and it burned a teddy bear.

Was sent to the shops frequently to purchase cigarettes . She smoked at least 30 a day in my asthmatic presence.

Spent many many hours rolling around in the back of my Dad's van on long journeys.

I'd better stop here, the list is possibly endless!

[Mikafan]

another one has just come back to me - being sent to our GP to collect my mums valium repeat prescription . Not sure how old I was but definately under 9.

[ChoChoSan]

My brother and I were often left outside the bookies in the car with the engine running, whilst dad popped in to place a bet. With the instruction not to let anyone give us a parking ticket! WTF! Were we supposed to drive the car off if a warden came along?

Mum used to throw her wooden clogs at us if we were getting on her nerves, which she does admit to now, but insists she always aimed to miss us.

She also used to grab us by the hair at the sides of our head and shake us backwards and forwards saying 'Oh Dammit!'. I have just almost literally pissed myself laughing remembering that one, and I think when I have a little one that's what I will suggest doing when it's naughty - I'm sure my mum would call the Social Services!

We were latch key kids from a really young age...leading to us trying to put a telly fire out with a pan of water, having the neighbour come round to let us know the toaster was on fire. Cover the kitchen counter in molten plastic when we put the toffeee that we had just made (unupervised) in an old plastic ice cream container to cool.

My bro recalls that one day Mum and Dad popped round to the shops to find us standing in the windows frames of the open upstairs bedroom window, completely naked, on their return! I don't recall this though, and I was never one to go naked, but my bro says this was verified by dad.

...but it never did us any harm!

[saltire]

I was left outside a shop once. mum got allt eh way home and dad asked "where's the baby?".
Another time she had me sitting under a clothes pulley, and she let go of the rope and it fell on me - luckily my head went through the bars on it and it rested on ym shoulders .
used to keep ym hair very short, to teh point I looked like a boy. Now though, when I mentioned that DN needed ahair cut she said "oh no, long hair is lovely on little girls"