What was the biggest trouble you got into as a child?
C.G.
The biggest trouble I got into WAS childhood!
WHEW it's good to be getting older!
.....a four year old chasing wild dogs with a butcher knife, to protect our pet shepherd
.....a three year old strolling 1/4 mile down the dirt road to Grandma's--all was fine until my mother saw the large truck barrelling down the road and realized I had probably strolled down to Grandma's again
.....from the time I was very small, putting small poisonous snakes in coke bottles--had to stop when one got out into the house overnight. My mother was NOT entertained
.....riding the bull---you put feed in a trough and let all the heifers and bull come to eat. Then you slip up onto the back of a pet heifer and quickly travel across the backs of the heifers (on hands and knees) to the back of the bull--or face down in the mud in front of him if he moved away at just the right time
.....floating (with no flotation device, boat, etc) on my back in the middle of the pond, when I could not swim---again, all was just fine until my mother noticed!
....AND THEN came the teenage years and some REAL insanity!!!
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August 2008 
do i feel for your mom! :)
yes…..I think she must have been going for big Karma bonus points when she signed up for the gig….
! The funny part is of course that it was all fine until mom noticed ;-)
You sound like a fabulously fearless kid.. I’d love to hear about those teenage years!
Thinking back to my own childhood, I can’t really remember.. I do know the ‘story’ of me, about 2, playing with my father’s razor blade. I was, apparently, happily sitting there, sucking on it, drenched in blood!
I can empathise with your mother - I had sons just like that, it was just as well I had a nursing qualification, the local casualty dept became quite familiar. Don't tell me long trousers were lucky if they lasted a week before a patch was needed, shoes disn't last much longer and your bike was always in need of repair?
ow, Sandra!! Oooh that hurt all the way over her…..this far away in years and miles!
I would not trade my aches these days for the brief immortality of teenage years, if I have to take the thought patterns that were a part of it all.
—odd enough, for most of my life, there were not many things about my young childhood that I remembered, either. Most are stories that I have been told over and over. Little by little the actual connections to the experiences are drifting back–almost like a soul-retrieval kind of thing.
Zephyr….we were on a farm, so we could continue to wear those steadily disintegrating clothes.
Yes, I think that I decided against having children (as a child) when my mother said the standard, “one day you'll have one just like you” prophesy. I knew to avoid that !!
I think that I decided against having children (as a child) when my mother said the standard, “one day you'll have one just like you” prophesy. I knew to avoid that !!
Oh, funny! I think I decided the same thing for different reasons.. I always felt like a child myself…. too young to have children, and I still do feel this, although I'm heading (veering right over actually) the age where the choice is no longer possible (barring adoption).
As for soul retrieval.. yes. I found that writing has helped a lot… going into a situation I knew happened but had no or very little memory of, and writing it as if I was there now, 'making it up' essentially, but somehow reconnecting with a deep truth.
Love,
Sandra
Sandra…..that was actually one of about 10 million reasons–including not doing that (my parenting) to anyone I cared enough to have as my child
Writing is that for me, as well….a very vital spiritual practice…the door that opens to the door that opens to the door that opens….
love and continued inspiration,
CG
CG: I am glad you made it to adulthood dear one…
I had my first child at 22, and many say that is a good age, but for me I was not ready! I was still very much a child. The experience was difficult and I wondered why I thought I could ever be anyones parent AFTER I already was. Perhaps if I had known how hard it would be, I would have made the same choice. Add to that the difficulties I had being married…and married again. Then I had another child at 29. I was ready this time, but my partner wasn't…and he left. WOW…what karma!
The point is…(and there is a point..LOL) I never felt like a parent. I always felt like the souls entrusted to my care were my very best friends…I love equality and do not enjoy domination…so perhaps I should not have been a parent either…!!!
I was not a strict parent, but we managed…and I say we (the kids) and I seemed to get through it all…and they are amazing people…so I feel fortunate they were no scarred by an in-eptness on my part. Being a mum is wonderful, being their friend is infinitely more wonderful…that is why if I am a grannie or not, it does not matter…I am just lucky I ended up having them at all given that I felt as you both did: like a child myself, or at least someone that never really wants to grow up…!
Thanks for posting this..as I never really have been able to articulate exactly how it is I feel about this issue in my life…and most definitely am happy to BE a mother, but wonder how I actually pulled it off!
love and blessings..
Aley
Thank you, Aley, for sharing.
I suspect that you pulled it off because you always perform superbly (even now, as I can see) the one function most needed for the job…..you give your heart TRULY, FULLY!!!!
love to you, dear one,
CG
Omg. Really! But you look sooooooo innocent now. Lol. . Reminds me of Dennis the little Menace…he didn't mean to cause any trouble …Trouble somehow insisted on playing with him. All the time.
Yep, I can see you kept your mother…and er…your guardian angel busy.
I guess I needed to get it all out of me before now, Amy…..
……many a guardian angel busy!
and most definitely am happy to BE a mother, but wonder how I actually pulled it off!
Lovely to read you Aley.. reading you I realised that I don't actually know if I made a choice not to have children.. or even if I have the kind of 'choice' in general that I think I have in this life. I know I never had the 'mother' pull that some women have, but perhaps we do not choose to be parents, rather we are chosen. Sounds like your kids chose well…
Love,
Sandra
….not to diminish the noble and demanding task of being a (biological, surrogate, or adoptive)parent, but I have to say that a writer (and not only a writer) may father or mother through their works….Maybe your call to parenting was of a different manifestation, Sandra
I suspect the “work” would generally not be considered as demanding–and probably not as rewarding–but it is an important work–also a noble work.
roller coaster adventures!
That explains it! I never had the heart for roller coasters!!!
or the head :)
sweet comment to me CG, thanks!
I needed that, been feeling 'off' about my writing lately.
Love,
Sandra