Did you ever lie to your parents? Honestly now!!
Poll: Did you ever lie to your parents? Honestly now!!
Total Members Polled: 168
Discussion
With the plethora of threads on the riots running at the moment, and the politicians now bickering with each other over what to do about it, one of the convenient scapegoats being jumped on appears to be "the parents" who "ought to be controlling their children"
Now I don't know about you, but I can remember my teenage years (even though they ended in 1972
) I was a rebellious little barsteward when I was a kid, along with I am sure many others. What we told out parents we were going to do and what we actually did when we went out was often two different things. "I'm going to Dave's house to play Monopoly" somebody might tell their parents, whilst the truth of the matter was that Dave had knocked off a flagon of cider from the local off licence and we were all meeting on a patch of local waste ground to get ourselves round the outside of it 
Whilst there is no doubt that discipline and receiving consequences for misbehaviour are out of fashion at the moment (or perhaps were out of fashion until the events of last week), and things have changed in my lifetime from kids getting the cane for coming to school with dirty fingernails, whilst all they get now is get to "sit on the "naughty step" when they've burnt the bleedin' science block down, I still fell that jumping in to "blame the parents" as though failing to supervise your kids is a new phenomena, is just a little too simplistic, and ain't going to get us anywhere in sorting out the worst excesses of the current sub-culture that was involved in the recent rioting.
What does everybody else think?
Now I don't know about you, but I can remember my teenage years (even though they ended in 1972
) I was a rebellious little barsteward when I was a kid, along with I am sure many others. What we told out parents we were going to do and what we actually did when we went out was often two different things. "I'm going to Dave's house to play Monopoly" somebody might tell their parents, whilst the truth of the matter was that Dave had knocked off a flagon of cider from the local off licence and we were all meeting on a patch of local waste ground to get ourselves round the outside of it Whilst there is no doubt that discipline and receiving consequences for misbehaviour are out of fashion at the moment (or perhaps were out of fashion until the events of last week), and things have changed in my lifetime from kids getting the cane for coming to school with dirty fingernails, whilst all they get now is get to "sit on the "naughty step" when they've burnt the bleedin' science block down, I still fell that jumping in to "blame the parents" as though failing to supervise your kids is a new phenomena, is just a little too simplistic, and ain't going to get us anywhere in sorting out the worst excesses of the current sub-culture that was involved in the recent rioting.
What does everybody else think?
There's a difference between saying you washed your hands before dinner (but didn't) and saying you're at Dave's playing on the Xbox (when you're really stealing a £300 TV after burning down a block of flats).
Blaming the parents is not simplistic. Saying "the child is just naughty" is simplistic. Blaming society is taking the piss, though.
Blaming the parents is not simplistic. Saying "the child is just naughty" is simplistic. Blaming society is taking the piss, though.
okgo said:
I'd lie through my teeth, I would have lied about what I had for breakfast, it got to the point where I was lying for no reason at all!
I'm only 13, and TBH I can sometimes be like this too.But as I've always said to my mum & dad what they don't know or when I 'twist the truth' is usually for their own good - like the things that went on in the tent at a recent sleepover
okgo said:
I'd lie through my teeth, I would have lied about what I had for breakfast, it got to the point where I was lying for no reason at all!
Phew - I've often wondered if it was just me. When I was about 15, I realised one day that I'd hardly said a truthful thing to my parents for weeks. I didn't even know why I was doing it. I think I just resented the idea that I was expected to account for anything I was doing.I think there's a world of difference between perfectly respectable kids on the surface who may get up to god knows what behind their parents backs and the parents [b]genuinely[b] have no idea, and the parents who know or suspect but simply don't give a f
k.
I don't really know if it came as that much of a shock to read that at some of the riot court hearings, there were kids being processed who had no parents present - not that it's an excuse for their actions but when that's the sort of parents you have what chance have you really got.
k.I don't really know if it came as that much of a shock to read that at some of the riot court hearings, there were kids being processed who had no parents present - not that it's an excuse for their actions but when that's the sort of parents you have what chance have you really got.
anonymous said:
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Hmmm .....Whilst I was thinking about my own teenage years when I started this thread, this post reminded me of the day that my eldest son (now 38, was about 14 at the time) got caught bunking off school. He told his mother that he didn't tell her, but he went along with a friend of his to support him at the friend's mother's funeral.
The then SWMBO burst into tears and forgave him on the spot. Momentarily. Until I checked the local newspaper to find that he apparently went to the wrong church, and a day late
Erm, I had a major off on a Honda motorcycle.
I told my mum I was through with bikes, but had the replacement delivered to my lock-up at her house when she was out. It stayed there for 3 weeks before I worked up the chunks to tell her.
Can't remember the story, but I can recall explaining that when I bought an R1, it was safe as it was less cc than the Honda.
Shameless.
I told my mum I was through with bikes, but had the replacement delivered to my lock-up at her house when she was out. It stayed there for 3 weeks before I worked up the chunks to tell her.
Can't remember the story, but I can recall explaining that when I bought an R1, it was safe as it was less cc than the Honda.
Shameless.
kamilb1998 said:
okgo said:
I'd lie through my teeth, I would have lied about what I had for breakfast, it got to the point where I was lying for no reason at all!
I'm only 13, and TBH I can sometimes be like this too.But as I've always said to my mum & dad what they don't know or when I 'twist the truth' is usually for their own good - like the things that went on in the tent at a recent sleepover
Perra said:
kamilb1998 said:
okgo said:
I'd lie through my teeth, I would have lied about what I had for breakfast, it got to the point where I was lying for no reason at all!
I'm only 13, and TBH I can sometimes be like this too.But as I've always said to my mum & dad what they don't know or when I 'twist the truth' is usually for their own good - like the things that went on in the tent at a recent sleepover
That was in the other tent, I think; I was in the tent with the girls
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