Some families have the tradition of taking the kids blueberry picking every summer. Some families take their kids to the same camping spot every year. Some families rob Target.
We all remain nostalgic for the exciting family activities of our youth....
When I was in elementary school in rural Mississippi in the mid 60’s, it was a small town and school had all 12 grades in one building.
We had a family that the mother was a teacher, the father was the coach, and their kids were in various grades in school, 3 IIRC.
I don’t remember much about the coach, as I was only in the 3rd grade, but his wife had a reputation of being a really mean teacher and she would have been one of mine on a couple of years.
One Monday morning they were all absent from school, the whole family. There was much confusion as to what was going on, having to get a substitute teacher and coach and all that goes with it.
But little ears hear everything and we were no exception, hearing the adult teachers and staff talk about the scandal that happened over the weekend.
Our town was 69 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee, so going to Memphis to shop was not unusual, seeing that there were no big stores in our little rural agricultural town.
What had occurred was the biggest scandal our little town had seen probably in since ever.
There was a store in Memphis called ‘DIXIEMART’ which was a new concept at that time, equal to a Costco or Sam’s in today’s market. You had to join it like Sam’s, you had to be a public employee, military, union, etc.
They had gone there on Saturday and gotten arrested for shoplifting, the whole family apparently were thieves and were teaching their kids to do the same.
They were never seen in our town again.......................
(Some families rob Target.)
It’s a family tradition!
Yes some people actually train their children to participate.