Memories Of Your Childhood

[Bobbisox1]

School,holidays Christmas etc

I had a very happy childhood, the youngest of 5, I was lucky that I never experienced the war years or hardships, my Dad had a good job after leaving the RAF,I liked school and to this day I adore Christmas , everyone thinks their generation was the best one but to me the 60s was the best, the music and the fashion

[Peter Pedant]

// but to me the 60s was the best,//

yeah People were much less censorious then.

I wd not have believed ( If I had been told) that 50y later there would be a return to victorian finger pointing and whispering

( just as the victorians replaced the Georgians AND disapproved of their libidinous habits ( Victoria: my wicked uncles)

[nailit]

My childhood was one of been sexually abused by a primary school teacher.
Been psychololgicaly abused in high school teachers
and bad parenting by my own parents.
(getting mugs of hot tea thrown at my head by my dad as well as ashtrays, glass ornaments etc.)
Never taught to clean my teeth or any basic hygiene skills.
My childhood was cr *p.

Glad you had a better one than I....


Im damn sure that my grandaughter has a better one,,


I hated

[Bobbisox1]

I guess it’s the luck of the draw Nailit ,sorry yours was bad

[nailit]

Its ok Bobbie,
Its all a learning curve...

[Bobbisox1]

I bet you’re little granddaughter is the apple of grandads eye Nailit

[nailit]

Any music that comes on the radio from the 70's I have to turn off.
Because it reminds me so much of pain etc.
Strangely any 80's music (my teenage years) Has to on full blast ;-)

[Bobbisox1]

I actually asked to have this removed a few hours ago Nailit, realising not everyone was as lucky as I was growing up….unfortunately it’s still here, sorry

[nailit]

//I bet you’re little granddaughter is the apple of grandads eye Nailit//
First and formost she is a ''daddys girl''
But yes, she is the apple of my eye Bobbie...

[Prudie]

My childhood was fine until the age of 12. Father was RAF pilot. Lots of friends on the bases, we played for hours out in the woods, no mothers worked but had coffee mornings, just remember last year or so of living in Singapore as a toddler, got into grammar school etc. Then my father fell in love with another officer's wife and ran off. Destroyed my mother and made my teens with her sad and poor. I suppose my generation is late 70s but for fashion and music the 80s is tops for me.

[Bobbisox1]

Dare I ask her name Nailt ( first one of course )

[Prudie]

Sorry thought this post had just come out otherwise I wouldn't have joined in.

[nailit]

//I actually asked to have this removed a few hours ago Nailit, realising not everyone was as lucky as I was growing up//

Hey, you cant change history!
Things are what they are.
People all have different experiences in life,

[nailit]

//Dare I ask her name Nailt //
Meadow.
I dont understand all these modern names that people name
their children nowadays but it seems to have grown on me ;-)

[Bobbisox1]

I love 80s music Prudie, 60s then jump to the 80s 70s was too cheesy

[Bobbisox1]

Ohhh, I love it ( Meadow)

[carolegif]

I had a disruptive childhood. My Dad was given a job in London when there was little housing after the war. I was brought up until the age of eight by my great grandmother, (my mother and grandmother had to work). It was a Victorian childhood as grt grandma was born in 1870. After I was eight, we went to live with my father in various homes - I had been in nine schools by the time I was thirteen. But I was loved.
My husband had a horrendous childhood, his mother died when he was ten leaving five children from the ages of ten to eight months. There was talk of adoption or care after relatives tried to rally round, unsuccessfully Then father married again to a woman who had three children of her own. Disaster! NSPCC called a few times, mental and physical cruelty.
We have now been married for over fifty years. We decided that our children would have a happy stable childhood. Perhaps our different childhoods made a perfect whole.

[Bobbisox1]

Certainly sounds that way Carole,a real success story

[nailit]

//Perhaps our different childhoods made a perfect whole//
Maybe not whole but certainlty better ;-)

[pastafreak]

My childhood was nice, pleasant, and as the youngest I guess I was spoiled by my brother...11 yrs older, and sister...14 yrs older. The school, built in the 1930s, sat on a huge field and was just visible from our front lawn.
Dad took the train into Manhattan to work, and was home by 5:30...dinner was on the table at 6 on the dot. All fresh cooked/baked with veg from the garden. Every Saturday we drove into the wee village center to go to the A &P supermarket...my treat was a bundle of lollies.
By the time I was 5 or 6, my sister was working. She bought our first telly...so we could watch the Coronation.

[Bobbisox1]

My Dad was a a radio engineer and we had our own tv too for the Coronation Pasta