Now that we are grown, we have a huge amount of respect for our parents, especially my mom. We all wonder how someone does that.
My mom always did say she never had a problem taking us out in public anywhere and that we were well behaved.
Of course, I do remember her admonition when she left us all in the car to go into a store...”if I hear that horn, you are going to wish you didn’t have hands to touch it with!”
Now, she could have meant anything by that, but in the dark recesses of our brains, I suspect we all thought it meant we better be prepared to have a hook for a hand!
when she left us all in the car to go into a store
Too funny! I remember that! You’d get locked up now for leaving your kids, or at least your dogs, in the car. I only had 3 kids, and I did that to them a time or two. Mom had five. Can you imagine trying to get 5 out of their car seats and into the store, then reverse that?! Mom probably hoped someone would take us! Course, we were rolling around like puppies in the back of the station wagon, no seat belts, much less car seats! Probably had the back window down too.
“My mom always did say she never had a problem taking us out in public anywhere and that we were well behaved.”
Yup, I and my siblings too. Including at the “you-can’t-control-them” stages of 2 and 3.
Those stages, LOL - people seem to think now every age is a “stage” for a kid to go through, as a brat, and they can ignore the kids’ behavior because “it’s just a stage and you can’t do anything”!
LOL, one time I heard my friend tell her son “If you DON’T quit TEASING your little brother, I am going to RIP your ARM OFF AND BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH THE BLOODY STUMP!!!!” I couldn’t help it, I snorted with laughter when I heard that. Because pretty much, she was an easy going mom and I knew she wouldn’t hurt her sons. Let alone start swinging amputated limbs around. I think my laughter kind of lessened the impact of her declaration though. The visual was just too much for me.