My old man pounded it into my head that I would learn more if I just shut up, watched and then asked questions. He was right.

 

^^^^ Or "your getting your butt blistered when your dad gets here" lol. I learned to listen and learn.

 

While I'm on my soap box---whatever happened to kids learning to say, please, thank you and your welcome???? I think maybe we skipped a generation. I also hate going to the store and have some 15-16 year old kid call me by my first name---and am I one of the only ones that remember what soap taste like--"I'm going to wash your mouth out with soap"!!!!
Jay

 

hated dawn liquid soap! YUK

 

It was hot sauce for me....


can you believe it??? i love hot sauce now, wish i did then.

I know how ya feel Jay, I'm 23 and i still don't know whether to call ppl by their first or last name. I still practice the sir, ma'm, thank you, and such.

 

Dawns better than Lava!
Jay



SORRY I hajacked this thread

 

Both of those are better than Borax! I think I had that whole 20 mule team stomp through my mouth when I got my mouth washed out with it

Didn't require a second treatment, once was plenty!

 

both of those bring back bad memories lol

 

And I thought that I was the only one old enough to remember things like that. Use to love the commerical for 20 Mule Team Borax, I think it was in black and white.
Jay

But if your serial number starts with a 2 your still a youngster!

 

I am only 36 but still remember when parents had a black and white TV.

 

Wouldn't have mattered if it was in color at our house we didn't get a Color TV until AFTER I moved out of the house Them Color TV's is just a passing fad....they will NEVER amount to anything

 

Now surely you don't do this to your kids - - - - do you???? HORRORS. You will stunt their personality and contract their learning ability.

Disgusting in the store when some kid is screaming and pulling on his mother dragging the floor because he wants that toy on the shelf or the candy. And the mother quietly tells him he shouldn't make that much noise, or finally gives up and lets him have whatever it is he wants. Wow - - talk about some warmed up butt steak had I done that as a kid. Likewise my kids. And guess what - - they love me for telling them right and wrong and making them understand it - - they do the same with their kids.

Oh well, Bahama Mama will fix it all for us. The kids will love him.

 

I have to say he has not had a butt whoopin in a long time. He is a good kid and pretty honest with both his mom and I. but he has had his fare share of them though. The older he gets, the more he seems to have a head on his shoulders but he has not started that puberty thing yet. That is when he will get stupid

 

Seems to me that not that long there was an item on the news because some parent got in trouble for washing their kids mouth out with soap. Don't remember all the details but I think the parent had to go to court for child abuse. I maintain that it is child abuse for NOT teaching your kids right from wrong, even if it entails washing their mouth out with soap.
I remember once when I was 'abused' by my mother. She caught me at about the age of 7 smoking somebodies cast of cigarette butt. She immediately forced me to sit down and in front of her, smoke a complete cigarette AND inhale. Boy-o-boy, was I green and sick. Never went near a cigarette again. Today she would probably be in jail and I would be in a foster home.

 

I still remember all the "CORRECTIVE ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENTS" I had gotten in my younger years. Mom was the first one to nail you. Didn't want POPS to get after you. Both are gone, but after all these years. By God I still repect them...Wrong is wrong. And you have to be taught that. Its not learned.