So tell me, how was your childhood?

Question

Share your experience, extra details are appreciated.

In a way smarty pants, in a way. I just want to see what's the psychiatric condition of the R&S people here.

Answer 1

You must be a psych 101 student... lol

I had a really good childhood... traveled alot on vacations, had lots of fun experiences... my folks really gave us a good life for being middle class.

Answer 2

I spent my childhood in a state of oblivion. Looking back I can't believe I was so oblivious to what was going on around me. I think I was totally spoiled and over-protected.
There were enough events, both good and bad, to keep me sufficiently depressed and thankful later on in life.
I grew up safely middle class. My dad was in the military and my mom started working when I was five. I had neighborhood friends, but, looking back, I don't think I was particularly attached to any of them. It has always been my perception that most of my childhood was spent around family and family friends. This would be the main cause of a lot of confusion and anger later on in life.
I don't know, I guess I can say I was very lucky to have had the childhood I did.

Answer 3

Real bad. I got beaten and sexually abused from ages 7-14. Then when the abuse came out which I didn't want it to come out but my mom found it and read it I was interviewed by CPS and a cop and neither of them believed I'd been abused. They thought I was suffering from emotional problems and couldn't find any evidence that I'd been physically and sexually abused so they closed the case. I was never raped thank God just molested. I never had any bruises on me either. However I was smacked across the mouth, intoxicated on purpose at 13, forced to take showers with my stepdad at ages 7 and 8, smacked across the head, spanked, slammed onto my hands and knees on the floor, and my stepdad even molested me at 12. This went on until I left at 14.

Answer 4

I was raised on a dairy farm and we had a lot of animals. chickens, cattle, milk cows, pigs and rabbits..we raised a lot of vegetables and also feed for the cattle. Our freezer was always full of lots of meat..and when i grew up it was sort of like the Walton's on TV as we were very close as a family.
On Sunday my mother always had a big dinner and she made the best fried chicken dinners.
We lived in a small village but we did not have lack of friends or playmates.
Our home did not ever get locked and our family never locked the door as nobody ever got robbed back then.
We had many parties because the relatives from the city liked to visit us in the country and then we would play in the barns and play like Pirates and hide and seek for hours and hours.
Our water supply was from a well and it had a very large sulfur content and when people visited they always gag as the smell was very strong.
We sold milk, and vegetables and lots of chicken and eggs in a roadside stand plus my mother would make honey from our stock of bees and jam and jelly from our fruit trees.
When we went to live in the city all these things went away and then we missed our simple life but you don't miss something until its gone

Answer 5

Fantastic. A lot of other children around, and plenty of places to play. A big field just at the end of the road, and trees we could climb.

It WAS a lot safer than as well. We could be out all day without any worrrying about us, and there were plenty of mums around to keep an eye on you - and report back if you did anything wrong.

Answer 6

My parents did the best they could with what they knew at the time. Just like myself. I'm a Grandmother to a beautiful little 3yr old girl; but if I could do some things differently with my 2 daughters, you can bet that I would change a few things! I hold NO grudges...I adore my parents and love them with all my being!!

Answer 7

Positive=One time I split my leg open at a pond and was rushed to the hospital for stitches. I was 150 miles away from home, but with relatives. My dad made a BEELINE down there to come and get me. He was a truckdriver all his life and one time as him and one of sisters were coming home from a trip 200 miles OUT of the hotel they'd stayed at - my sister started crying and my dad found out she'd left her barbie. He went back and got it. He was always buying gifts aka substitute for a hug and kiss.
Negative=My mom took a LOT of verbal abuse and maybe a little physical & stayed with him til her death of cancer. I played with friends and loved school so I would NOT have to deal with my father. He was prejudice - if you weren't bald, white and a truck driver - you were communist or whatever else name he wanted to call you. He called me a LOT of MEAN names. My three other sisters were participants of his abuse as well. He drank and smoked. His good moves were SO much less than his bad moves! I couldn't WAIT to move out. He died a lonely man of a heart attack.

Answer 8

Wretched.

Grew up in an orphanage with evil Southern Baptists people running the show and preying on the kids.
Contemplated sucide at age 8 because I was powerless to change my situation.

Prayed to god to save me but there was only an answering machine. god never got back to me.

So I stopped calling and learned to take care of myself, survived, became educated, traveled, prospered, and am happy and enjoying my life.

Now,Tell us about your childhood.

Answer 9

Mine was fine until we MOVED during my SENIOR YEAR of High School!!! Still bitter about that 30 years later. Of course, if that's the worst thing that happenend during my childhood, then you can surmise I've had a pretty good life. :)

Answer 10

Pure h e l l, and no, you may not have the details. It was bad enough living through it the first time.