Things you did as a kid that would now get parents in trouble

El_Dangeroso · 10-10-2011 02:27PM #1

When I was a kid we used to stay out playing in our neighbourhood in the summer until after 10pm.

We used to go swimming in the local canal by ourselves in summer.

Some of my friends used to be sent to the shop with a note to buy their parents cigarettes and were given them.:eek:

I used to go into town on the bus by myself from around age 11 (Limerick city :eek:)

My niece is 13 and none of us would ever dream of letting her go on a bus by herself.

What were you allowed do as a kid in the age before judgemental media hysteria that would now be considered terrible parenting?

force eleven · 10-10-2011 02:32PM

I used to watch Baywatch on a Saturday night. After eight o clock too.

Chuck Stone · 10-10-2011 02:37PM

Used to jump off this bridge into deep dark water as a child. (11/12 years old)

William_Hicley · 10-10-2011 02:39PM

Used to fit six of us in the back seat on the way to mass, no seatbelts! :pac:

candy-gal1 · 10-10-2011 02:40PM

watched horror movies when i was about 9/10, the 18s kind

seemed like a bigger deal to me back then

El_Dangeroso · 10-10-2011 02:41PM

That's nothing..

I have seen friends do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzHHPBB3Guw

Skip to 3:30

RayM · 10-10-2011 02:41PM

On a Sunday night, if I stayed really quiet, my parents would forget to send me to bed until ten minutes after Glenroe finished. :eek:

ringadingding · 10-10-2011 02:42PM

Watched the A-team from a really young age................

My name is URL · 10-10-2011 02:46PM

I was under the impression that AH posters were never children.

Chuck Stone · 10-10-2011 02:47PM

Check this one out (not me btw).

smash · 10-10-2011 02:48PM

candy-gal1 wrote: »

watched horror movies when i was about 9/10, the 18s kind
seemed like a bigger deal to me back then

I asked my local video store for a copy of Hellraiser 3 when I was around 12. I told them my dad asked me to get it for him... And they gave it to me.

It wasn't me! · 10-10-2011 02:49PM

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

That's nothing..

I have seen friends do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzHHPBB3Guw

Skip to 3:30

Damn... I really want to do that now! Spent my childhood jumping off remote cliffs in the southwest, was brilliant. Also was essentially feral, roaming wherever I wanted in the countryside, climbing trees and in quarries from morning 'til night, swimming in rivers, getting buses on my own from about 11 or 12 on, probably loads of other stuff that wouldn't be considered safe nowadays but without which, I certainly wouldn't have had such a happy childhood.

Temptamperu · 10-10-2011 02:51PM

Me and my friends set Gorse fires, once it set a barn on fire... come to think of it that might of got the rents in trouble back then

Chuck Stone · 10-10-2011 02:52PM

Used to get the bus from Cork to Derry and back when I was 13/14 . About 10 hours and about 5 changes.

Lando Griffin · 10-10-2011 02:55PM

Drive a tractor on a public road aged 14 without functioning lights etc.
Be the proud owner of a gollywog.
Wear a Freddie Mercury tee shirt.
Send us off to football matches with the trainer and 8 or 9 of us crammedd into his ford cortina.

AnonoBoy · 10-10-2011 02:56PM

I used to walk home a few miles by myself when I was 7.

Of course nowadays paedophiles watch their every move so kids can't do that.

--Kaiser-- · 10-10-2011 02:56PM

Playing 'war' games with swords, bows and arrows fashioned out of bamboo

smash · 10-10-2011 02:57PM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Be the proud owner of a gollywog.

I burst out laughing... my little brother had one too.

xzanti · 10-10-2011 02:58PM

Get the arse smacked off me.

OakeyDokey · 10-10-2011 03:00PM

Over load the car going on Sunday drives and didn't wear a seat belt.

smash · 10-10-2011 03:00PM

xzanti wrote: »

Get the arse smacked off me.

Rumours have it that you still like it.

El_Dangeroso · 10-10-2011 03:02PM

It really is amazing any of us made it to adulthood isn't it?:)

Chuck Stone · 10-10-2011 03:02PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Playing 'war' games with swords, bows and arrows fashioned out of bamboo

My Da made me and my brother stainless steel swords to play with!

They were blunt though.:)

muff03 · 10-10-2011 03:07PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Playing 'war' games with swords, bows and arrows fashioned out of bamboo

"I got you first!!"
'No way...'
"I did, I shot ya in the face!"

The stick is the greatest thing ever

krudler · 10-10-2011 03:08PM

xzanti wrote: »

Get the arse smacked off me.

I call that Friday night these days

Bannasidhe · 10-10-2011 03:10PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

My Da made me and my brother stainless steel swords to play with!

They were blunt though.:)

My brother showed me how to make a functioning bow when I was about 8 (we already had wooden swords). Back in the early 90s I showed my son how to make a bow when he was 8 - yet, we all failed to 'loose an eye'. Son had a wooden sword too - but in the interests of health and safety I got him a shield too cos being a Mammy I have to think about these things:p.

Over the course of every summer, myself and my 5 cousins would each fall in the slurry pit of the farm my uncle worked on at least once. My aunt had a powerhose just for those moments....

WHIP IT! · 10-10-2011 03:16PM

muff03 wrote: »

"I got you first!!"
'No way...'
"I did, I shot ya in the face!"

"No ye didn't, I dodged it - like this..." (*does a blade/bullet invading maneuver longggg before Keanu Reeves ever did it in The Matrix*)

--Kaiser-- · 10-10-2011 03:21PM

muff03 wrote: »

"I got you first!!"
'No way...'
"I did, I shot ya in the face!"

The stick is the greatest thing ever

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye (which nearly happened to my brother with an wayward bamboo arrow)

Tonyandthewhale · 10-10-2011 03:33PM

Aged about 10 on I used to disappear off on my bike soon after breakfast. Might come back for lunch might come back for dinner.
No mobile phone and I was free to wander pretty much as far as I could get in under mine own steam (so about 10-15miles). Explored castles and other ruins (ie climbed up on the roof of any unguarded building we could find), build treehouses, start fires, wade through rivers, talk to strangers, fashion weapons out of sticks and things (bows and arrows, swords etc), carry a pen-knife for purposes of 'wilderness survival,' climb mobile phone masts, never wore a seatbelt, associated freely with the parish priests, snuck into local GAA games without paying (I don't even know if kids had to pay but it was always more fun to hop the wall), punched each other in the face. Etc etc, all good wholesome stuff.

WIZE · 10-10-2011 03:41PM

Nick Nacks

Do Kids still do Nick Nacks ? ( Ring Door bells and run off )

Also tie String onto Door Knockers and Hide in a bush

krudler · 10-10-2011 03:46PM

WIZE wrote: »

Nick Nacks

Do Kids still do Nick Nacks ? ( Ring Door bells and run off )

these days they'd be sued for harassment and put on medication, possibly taken off their parents and put into state care.

Things you did as a kid that would now get parents in trouble

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