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How was your childhood?
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I had a great childhood, holidays twice a year, somewhere different every time,great time at school, no bullying, was a school football genius and that means serious poontang off young impressionable woman, parents were willing to make every effort to provide opportunities and help us make the correct decisions in life and all too often put our interests before any of theirs, sometimes to their own inconvenience and detriment
Well whupdedo!
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Pretty good for me by all accounts.
My grandparents had a big hand in my upbringing as my parents both worked. They would pick me up from school, and I've spend the day watching old war and cowboy movies with my Grandad. He was a chef years gone by, so would make amazing lunches and dinners for me ( I blame them for my fatness
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Around football time, maybe midweek matches during winter, or champions league, I'd just stay over the night, watch the football with my Grandad and he would drop me to school next morning. Good times and great memories. Watching the epic Liverpool vs Newcastle 4-3 match was a fond memory.
It as also used as a technique by my folks as punishment, they knew I loved staying over watching football so it would be a method to make me behave
My parents worked hard to give me every opportunity. By no means wealthy, my father came from a pretty deprived background but an example from his parents of them working hard to provide took its shape in him. Both parents worked incredible overtime to provide for holidays, christmas and give me a great childhood.
As I grew up in the advent of gaming, my Da took an active interest. He'd sit and watch me play my SEGA megadrive, then moving onto the Playstation, but over time would get actively involved. Who doesnt remember one taking top and one taking bottom on Streets of rage, but I did it with my Da
As I got older, he bought the first family PC. While he sold it as an "educational tool" I was well wise he had seen what PC games could do, and wanted in on the action. He let me in on the plan and we bought our first PC. To keep up the sharade, he bought a number of educational software, that encylopedia discset. However he told me to go get two games I wanted, and one specifically he wanted, while he distracted her with the washing machines:D Unreal tournament and Theme hospital I picked, as my Da wanted Shogun total war.
Wasn't long before I had bought my own PC, and as both of us were playing PC games, we started looking into broadband.
Plenty of times where we had falling outs, and I didn't speak to my mother for along time, but now I'm older I appreciate I was a times pretty ungrateful and took them for granted. When I look back I was one of the first people to get a PC, internet, always on broadband, HD TV, so much technology stuff I had an interest in. And all because my Da, a postman, worked so much overtime to provide those things for me. And my mother, admin in a hospital doing the same.
Definitly some major regrets, one of which was being maybe nicer and more appreciative of what was done for me. My parents weren't hard asses' they were fair on reflection, but pushed me to do well in school, to have the opportunities they never had, like college. Ended up being the first in my extended family to go through college, and set a precedent really for cousins and stuff behind me to follow suit 0 -
Pretty good for me by all accounts.
My grandparents had a big hand in my upbringing as my parents both worked. They would pick me up from school, and I've spend the day watching old war and cowboy movies with my Grandad. He was a chef years gone by, so would make amazing lunches and dinners for me ( I blame them for my fatness)
Around football time, maybe midweek matches during winter, or champions league, I'd just stay over the night, watch the football with my Grandad and he would drop me to school next morning. Good times and great memories. Watching the epic Liverpool vs Newcastle 4-3 match was a fond memory.
It as also used as a technique by my folks as punishment, they knew I loved staying over watching football so it would be a method to make me behave
My parents worked hard to give me every opportunity. By no means wealthy, my father came from a pretty deprived background but an example from his parents of them working hard to provide took its shape in him. Both parents worked incredible overtime to provide for holidays, christmas and give me a great childhood.
As I grew up in the advent of gaming, my Da took an active interest. He'd sit and watch me play my SEGA megadrive, then moving onto the Playstation, but over time would get actively involved. Who doesnt remember one taking top and one taking bottom on Streets of rage, but I did it with my Da
As I got older, he bought the first family PC. While he sold it as an "educational tool" I was well wise he had seen what PC games could do, and wanted in on the action. He let me in on the plan and we bought our first PC. To keep up the sharade, he bought a number of educational software, that encylopedia discset. However he told me to go get two games I wanted, and one specifically he wanted, while he distracted her with the washing machines:D Unreal tournament and Theme hospital I picked, as my Da wanted Shogun total war.
Wasn't long before I had bought my own PC, and as both of us were playing PC games, we started looking into broadband.
Plenty of times where we had falling outs, and I didn't speak to my mother for along time, but now I'm older I appreciate I was a times pretty ungrateful and took them for granted. When I look back I was one of the first people to get a PC, internet, always on broadband, HD TV, so much technology stuff I had an interest in. And all because my Da, a postman, worked so much overtime to provide those things for me. And my mother, admin in a hospital doing the same.
Definitly some major regrets, one of which was being maybe nicer and more appreciative of what was done for me. My parents weren't hard asses' they were fair on reflection, but pushed me to do well in school, to have the opportunities they never had, like college. Ended up being the first in my extended family to go through college, and set a precedent really for cousins and stuff behind me to follow suit
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Pretty good for me by all accounts.
My grandparents had a big hand in my upbringing as my parents both worked. They would pick me up from school, and I've spend the day watching old war and cowboy movies with my Grandad. He was a chef years gone by, so would make amazing lunches and dinners for me ( I blame them for my fatness)
Around football time, maybe midweek matches during winter, or champions league, I'd just stay over the night, watch the football with my Grandad and he would drop me to school next morning. Good times and great memories. Watching the epic Liverpool vs Newcastle 4-3 match was a fond memory.
It as also used as a technique by my folks as punishment, they knew I loved staying over watching football so it would be a method to make me behave
My parents worked hard to give me every opportunity. By no means wealthy, my father came from a pretty deprived background but an example from his parents of them working hard to provide took its shape in him. Both parents worked incredible overtime to provide for holidays, christmas and give me a great childhood.
As I grew up in the advent of gaming, my Da took an active interest. He'd sit and watch me play my SEGA megadrive, then moving onto the Playstation, but over time would get actively involved. Who doesnt remember one taking top and one taking bottom on Streets of rage, but I did it with my Da
As I got older, he bought the first family PC. While he sold it as an "educational tool" I was well wise he had seen what PC games could do, and wanted in on the action. He let me in on the plan and we bought our first PC. To keep up the sharade, he bought a number of educational software, that encylopedia discset. However he told me to go get two games I wanted, and one specifically he wanted, while he distracted her with the washing machines:D Unreal tournament and Theme hospital I picked, as my Da wanted Shogun total war.
Wasn't long before I had bought my own PC, and as both of us were playing PC games, we started looking into broadband.
Plenty of times where we had falling outs, and I didn't speak to my mother for along time, but now I'm older I appreciate I was a times pretty ungrateful and took them for granted. When I look back I was one of the first people to get a PC, internet, always on broadband, HD TV, so much technology stuff I had an interest in. And all because my Da, a postman, worked so much overtime to provide those things for me. And my mother, admin in a hospital doing the same.
Definitly some major regrets, one of which was being maybe nicer and more appreciative of what was done for me. My parents weren't hard asses' they were fair on reflection, but pushed me to do well in school, to have the opportunities they never had, like college. Ended up being the first in my extended family to go through college, and set a precedent really for cousins and stuff behind me to follow suit
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Mine was okay-ish. Quite different to most kids I knew. I moved around a lot. Lived in 3 different countries and about 8 different houses before the age of 7. Travelled a lot.
Parents broke up when I was young, my Dad stayed in France and my Mother, brother and myself moved to Ireland. Spent every single school holiday (midterms and all!) going to France. Hated it for the most part...never got to spend the summer with my friends, missed my mom, and never got on with my Dads wife.
But I did have some pretty cool summers and had some experiences that many people won't have. Spent a few summers touring around France with my Dads band when I got a bit older..that was quite fun!
School was fine. I was really quiet. Kept to myself.
My mom worked 3 jobs to provide for us and my grandmother helped out a lot which we are very grateful for. Must have been so hard for my mom to move back from France as a single mother with 2 small children! I can still remember the ferry journey with all our stuff. Eek.
I feel quite lucky that we moved to Killarney ( my mother is from there anyway). It's a nice town to grow up in. I always wonder what I would have turned out like if we stayed in France or London
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Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »Brilliant, if a little sheltered. I never wanted for anything, hence why now...I want everything.
Yeah, I've one of them as well - the little wagon got everything bar a batin'.
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It wasn't the worst by a long shot, but I certainly wasn't something I look back on with any kind of fondness.
I hated and despised my father (still do, I haven't spoken to him in about 20 years now), and growing up with him as a parent left me with mental health issues, no self-esteem and generally no trust in men.
I've been working to reverse all that, but it was not an easy thing to do.
I usually consider the day my mother finally told me she was leaving the sh*tbag to be the day my life started. It used to be the happiest day of my life, until the day I got married 0 -
Hande hoche! wrote: »Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.
This post reminded me of this for some reason
The line " where do you go to my lovely when you're alone in your bed " should be changed to The line " where do you go to my lovely when you're alone in your bed with your shaved ballsac "0 -
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Hey Belle E Flops! All seems to have gone swimminglyBelle E. Flops wrote: »Had a great childhood in the 90s. Parents were and still are always there for myself and my brothers.
Spent my childhood climbing, jumping and falling off trees and walls, making 'dens', inventing games with my neighbours, having hurling/football/soccer matches during the summer where the whole family and the neighbours would play. They were epic.
I only have fond memories of my childhood. 0 -
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Mine was great despite us not having much, my ma brought me up and she worked hard to provide and come Xmas time always ensured Santa came.
I grew up in carefree era of the late 70's and 1980's, the vast majority didn't have or even know what a computer with, as kids we'd spend most of the time playing football,climbing trees and all sorts, I remember all the world cups and all the kids in the area would be playing football on the street, we used to have Street party's in summer and the summer project was loved by all, as working class kids it was an experience for us to go out for the day to Clara Lara in Wicklow (I'm sure that's what it was called) even our toys were different, no X-Boxes or PS4 or smartphones, action man, meccano and my favourite Scalextrix, getting an Atari was a big thing.
The sense of community back then was vastly greater than it is now, people weren't materialistic or shallow, we used to pay 20 pents to go to someone's house to watch Bruce Lee - enter the dragon as all the kids loved Bruce Lee and most couldn't afford a video recorder at the time, I loved Star Wars and Superman too.
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