One night, many years ago, my sister and I decided to have a confession night with my mom. We fessed up to all sorts of hijinks we got up to when we were teenagers. Here are some examples and how I plan to use them:
Remember Philip (old boyfriend). Well he was really 19 not 17. I was 15, so now I will ID all of my daughters dates.
Remember when you guys went out of town? Well we had a pretty good party here...hmmm maybe have a neighbor check up on her
There were several, I was really here when I said I was there---probably call and check every once in a while.
My fav and the worst, When we were teenagers we used to get a pink slip of paper that was our permit, then when you got a license you got another pink piece of paper until they mailed your plastic license. So my best friend and I convinced my mom that she had her license. We went to McD's in my moms car. We were freaked the whole time and vowed never to do it again. But then my mom was sending us on all sorts of errands. Would you girls go to the store and get... It was awful!
So my question is this..Have you ever done the same thing? What have you learned from your own youthful misdeeds that you will use to bust your kids? :) My mom just laughed and said , "You girls"
Oh my, you are all so naughty! I'm too old to remember all the bad things I did, that's my excuse. Not long ago, I overheard my kids laughing about some things they did that mom (me!) didn't know about. Yeah, hahaha!
I never did anything wrong. I never lied. I never sneaked out. I never stayed out past curfew. I never drank or smoked underage. I never parked out in the woods with some guy.
Thats my story and Im sticking to it... wink wink.
Hell yeah I've learned! Oh the stuff I have done...my boys aren't going to be allowed to do anything LOL just kidding. They're only 5 and 2 but I am already worrying about what they might get into :o)
Oh yeah! I got a hold of my passport and tried to change my birth date year from 1964 to 1963. Drinking age was 18 at the time and my friends were 18 and I wasn't. Took my mom a little while to figure out what I had done and when they did it didn't go over too well since the folks didn't have our birth certificates and they used the passports as our offical documents! Oops!
Several years later I was talking to my mom and she was like "you were such an doodoo bird"! I told her about another incident and she said "good grief".
Just confessed to my dad over the weekend that I tried pot once and then I asked him if he had ever tried it!!!! He started laughing and said 'No" so I wonder!!!!
I could N E V E R lie to my mom. She'd laugh at me, saying I had the worst lying face in the world. My husband says the same thing (playing a game, if he asks me a sneaky question it's the same thing as cheating because I can't keep my face normal---it goes red, silly expression, and my voice goes several octaves higher). HOWEVER what I did, that I will keep an eye out for, is make the best of it. I couldn't lie, so I would BORE my parents with every stupid detail so that they'd walk away before I got to any part of the story that I didn't really want to get to.
We were NOT bad kids. I think we were really good, but OH my goodness did we get into stuff. Not "bad" but just...."funny". I had a lot of imagination and we were bored in a small town so you had to create adventures for yourselves. My favorite "near miss" was when we were in my friend's AWESOME trans-am (T-tops, the engine was crazy and bigger than we could handle safely honestly, because her father was always playing with that car, competing with another dad for the bigger and more powerful toys). We pulled up to a red light and a policeman was parked at the bank, across the street from McDonalds (sadly THE big hangout in our little town then), and I stood up and yelled to him, flashed him, and we took off. He chased us of course, and we drove around the back roads and called a friend on a CB radio (remember those things?) and had him meet us "where Bone China practices" (a back street). We drove into a dead end street, ran across the field to that other road, jumped in the truck, and he's like "Now what?" and I said "take us to McDonalds!". We walked in 1 door, grabbed some empty cups off a table to look like we'd been there eating, and walked out the 2nd door and started screaming. I sprayed breathspray in my friend's eyes so she was crying when we ran to the policeman who was on duty at McDonalds (so many kids, they actually stayed there on Friday nights, lol)...we told him the car was GONE, it'd been stolen while we were inside. They did find her car, deserted on some back road where some hooligans had probably been doing who knows what, and my friend got in trouble for leaving her keys in the car, but I took the blame for keeping her in the restaurant so long when it was supposed to be a quick in and out trip. My mom asked what we got up to, and I spent 20 minutes talking about pumping gas and what song was on at the gas station, and who we saw there, and what was said......she heard we went to McDonalds and said "cool" and walked away. I'll be listening to those stories when my boys come in, even if it takes all night.
I will also keep those boys really busy and active so they aren't bored and looking for things to entertain them like we were. I don't care if they're on the chess team or the wrestling team, or what clubs they get involved in really, but they will be involved! :P
Oh heck yes!!
My oldest son got away with nothing because my hubby was such a delinquent, said in a loving way. He knows what 15 yo boys do so he was on it.
My girls have not shown any of the deviance I did at the same age, leaving at night, going to so and so's when I was supposed to be at a girlfriends. But I grew up basically in the same house. They have moved many times, military, and their safety net is still the family.
Of course we've all done stupid things as teens and as an adult my mom is aware of most of them now b/c we can laugh about it- but there are some things that don't need "confessing" b/c they just assumed we were doing them (saying you are one place when you are really another). Then again, there were no cell phones then and my mother DID call the other parents to make sure we were really sleeping where we said we were sleeping.
My mother was a "wild child", so she was "on to" most of our tricks before we even had a chance to try them out. Tape up the hemline? Busted- we wore uniforms so that wasn't really an option. Change after leaving the house? Busted- she was on EVERY committee at our school, so we knew we'd get ratted out at some point. Ditto for anything having to do with boys- volunteered at our prep school so not only did she KNOW every kid there, my parents socialized with their parents. We rarely got away with anything, but we definitely tried!
I'm with....Kelseys mom L !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only have we confessed things to my parents, they confessed things to us!
Example?
Us: having parties the 2 times they went out of town.
Them: read all of our "private" notes and knew everything that was going on
My husband's example?
Him: Got high with one of his friends, girlfriend picked him up, got into a fight with his girlfriend and got out of the car with friend. Had mom pick them up.
Mom: Knew he was high when she picked him up!
It's going to be hard between what I've done and what my husband's done, the kids aren't going to be able to get away with anything!
My kids don't stand a chance :)
I was the youngest of 4 so by the time I got into my teens my parents were "less concerned" to put it nicely. They "thought" I was a good kid, and for the most part I was, but I did do some naughty things!! And a lot of those will never be confessed. I was a straight A student, dated the neighbor boy, never missed my curfew, etc.
They just never knew what I did once they went back to sleep or went out of town or late home from work, etc.
My hubby wasn't as mischevious as I was, but he was a partier and skipped school. So between the two of us we know most of the excuses and ins and outs of it all. Our boys don't stand a chance!!
