When you where a kid what where some rules and your daily life?

Question

I posted earlier about what kind of kid you where earlier, that wasn't what happend to me heres my rules from childhood

If I didn't like the speghetti, my mom would wrap it in tin foil and put it in the fridge and it'd be on my plate while the rest of my family had turky in gravey for the following days....

If I didn't clean my room I'd stay in my room, only to go out t go to the bathroom

If I said cuss words I'd have to say sorry and wash out my moulth with a bar of soap

If I lied my mom would sit me down in a chair until I said the truth

If I broke something I'd have to give my mom all my alowance to buy anouther of its kind

iF I talked back to my parents I got a spakein'

If I didn't do my chores I'd do a week of chores with no allowance....

My life was

6 am wake up

take a shower brush my teeth get dressed for school ride my bike to school

SCHOOL

ride my back home do my chores: feed chickens water plants groom and feed dogs walk dogs scoop the dog p**p

weed the..

Answer 1

Thats life for a child. My roles were bacially the same. Luckly your parents love you enough to give you that kind of attention. It help teach you that it's not right to steal and that if you do still it doesnt work out in the long run they r teaching you respect the things that you do have because if you dont you wont have nothing just think of it like this if you steal when your older you go to jail if you lie you wont have very many friends cuz the truth always comeout soon or later and you should always respect your elders and never talk back to them your parents r your best friend and once they r gone u will not have no other friend greater than them and that is hard to think about when you are a child because childern just dont look at out comes of every thing I didnt as a kid I wish I could have

Answer 2

why ask this question?

Answer 3

I do not agree with the washing your mouth out with soap or making you pay out of allowance for something you broke.  Kids make mistakes and things break.  If I cussed then I would have got a spanking but I think the soap in the mouth is violent behavior and dangerous for a child's health.

When I say violent behavior, the act of shoving soap in a kids mouth does not set will with me.

Answer 4

I ate what was on my plate or sat there until it was done.

Be in the house when the streetlights came on.

Rotated with doing dishes, clearing table, and setting...doing the dishes included wiping off all counters and the stove.

Was in bed by 8pm

Wasn't allowed to call anybody a brat or say f**t.

Wasn't allowed to get into any physical fights with people....the 1 time I did, I was grounded for a week.

If room wasn't clean we would get colored slips posted on the door..when you got to the pink you were only allowed to enter your room to clean it and get clothes..you had to sleep in the computer room with the litter box until then..

Did get spanked when I did something wrong or got grounded depending on the situation..

Junk food was not allowed and snacks were a treat, not the norm.

woke up

ate breakfast

watched cartoons for a bit

walked to school

came home

did chores

did homework

ate dinner

took shower

played or watched tv

in bed by 8pm

Answer 5

I was never spanked, never had my mouth washed out with soap, etc.  I was sent to my room when I misbehaved and generally felt so terrible about it that I'd clean my entire room while I was there, lol.  Yes, I was expected to help out with housework at a level reasonable for my age, but I was also expected to just go out and play with my friends, which I did for hours on end.  My daily life involved a lot of time for imagination, exercise, play with friends, and reading, as well as being with family and working hard at school.

It certainly worked for me.  I was the classic "good kid" and as an adult am the type of person who feels like a horrible criminal if i don't have a quarter for the parking meter.

Answer 6

No tv before homework was done

Homework for the weekend had to be completed by Saturday morning

Wash hands before eating anything

Take shoes off at the door before coming in the house

Answer 7

Sounds like you will hopefully be productive in your adult-life as well!  It's good that your mom did all those things for you, and you will realize that when you grow up.  She taught you responsibility, and that's great.  

I kind of wish my parents had more rules when I was younger.  I mean, luckily I'm pretty responsible in my adult life, I have a good job and a great husband.  But, my parents didn't really discipline me too much.  I think I was spanked once when I was little.  I was a little brat when I was a teenager, and I partied and drank a lot.  So, teaching responsibility at a young age is a good thing, trust me :)

Answer 8

We ate what was put in front of us or we went to bed hungry.  

Television watching was limited to an hour a day and 2 hours on Saturday mornings.  If homework wasn't completed by bedtime that was too bad, it all went into our bindres (we didn't do back packs in those days) and was turned in as is.  Taught the benifits of time managment.  If we had had an altercation with a sibling during the day we were to apologize before we went to bed.  

If we got into trouble we were disciplined, never hit (spanked) but disciplined.  My parents had a rule, if we wanted to do something on the weekend we had better behave all week otherwise that activity would not be one of ours, and they stuck to it.  I remember my mother purchasing a birth day present for a party I was supposed to attend but because I got into trouble during the week I was not allowed to attend...my mother drove me to the party and I had to give the gift that was purchased to the recipient but I was not allowed to stay.  We were taught at an early age that everything we did had consequences and that we were responsible for those consequences.  We didn't have assigned chores, however we were expected to "Pitch in" if we dishes need to be placed into the dishwasher whomever was in the kitchen did it.  If furniture needed dusting one of us grabbed a dust rag and did it.  We didn't get an allowance, my parents as I do believed they shouldn't have to pay their children for them providing a roof over our heads and food in our bellies.  If we misbehaved as small children we got time outs.  As we got older, into our teens the "punishment" would fit the crime.  I once told my mother off in the grocery store, embarassed the c**p out of her.  So the next time she picked me up from a school activitie she showed up wearing an old torn housecoat, rollers in her hair and worn out pink fuzzy slippers.  There is nothing like seeing your mother come down the hall of your school looking like that.  I never embarassed my mother in public again.

Answer 9

Nothing major. I wasn't supposed to lie or cuss or anything like that. I never had soap in my mouth though my brother did. I was spanked maybe one time~~I listened better than my siblings I guess. I tell my kids that I would help with canning in the summer, work in the garden, clean the bathroom every Saturday as well as help with laundry. We knew that we had to eat what was on our plates or we wouldn't be getting anything else later.

I would always take a bath at night so in the morning it was get up, eat, brush teeth and hair, get dressed, get on the bus and to school. Head home in the after-noon on the bus and just played after home-work was done. Eat, sometimes help with dishes. Hang out for a bit with the fam, go to bed. Oh and church was common too.

I really think today's kids need the structure and discipline of years gone by and the world would be a much better place.

Answer 10

here was my life..when we had to eat peas corn or pinto beans and i wasnt done within a certain amount of time i got to get another couple of ladles full to eat again within a certain amount of time..i hated those foods...we drank koolaid at all meals and tang for breakfast all other times we drank water..we had no snacks between meals...we ate pinto beans while my adopted mother would fix steaks for her and my adopted father..i would get up at 6 in the morning and go fix breakfast for my brothers and i ..whether you wanted to eat it or not you had it was cereal with toast and tang..it wasnt good cereal it was cornflakes with on teaspoon of sugar..nothing more..i would sit and put a spoon at a time in their bowls as they wanted to eat more but werent allowed to while i wanted nothing for breakfast...i had to do the dishes and clean the kitchen top to bottom before i got ready for school...i would come home from school and dust the living room and start on supper as my mother was in school and didnt have the time to do it...it would be something i was told to make..after dinner i would have to wash and hand dry all the dishes..most of the glasses ended up back in the sink as if they had spots my father thought they were dirty..and i would of course rewash them....i would then go dust their bedroom and vaccum and make their bed....i would mop the floors in the house on monday wed and friday...at about 7 at night.by 9 i was in the bed..needless to say i didnt ever do any homework had no fun in my life except at school...and this is not counting all the laundry i had to hang on the line and get off when it was dry..the only thing i didnt have to do was actually wash the laundry they managed to do that..their clothes went in the dryer ours the kids went out on the line.i was not allowed to give our phone number out to anyone so no phone calls from friends for me....no going out to the mall..my life sucked..i got married at 17 to someone who rescued me..we divorced when i was 33 and remarried last year...i had to work thru all those issues on my own..as i had never been on my own in my life...but now we are happy our kids are happy and their life is totally different than what mine was..they have chores but nothing like mine...my son at17 also has a permit i wasnt allowed to get one...oh and i would lie my *** off on anything because it didnt matter if it were the truth or not i was getting punished..i lied to save my *** from belt or wearing dresses to school as a punishment..and what was even funnier if you got a c you got a 30 minute earlier bed time...there was one year i was in bed by 730...lol my life sucked im telling you..needless to say i dont speak to either of those jerks and havent for the last ten years

Answer 11

i dont get the big thing with washing a kids mouth with soap or spanking or anyother crazy ,childhurting thing you can think of.

kids are going to be kids and you need to get that.

if your a beliver in god and dont go to church then GO it will make your kids not cuss if worked for my sisters kids