re: What experiences from your past would you bring back for today's kids if you could?

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What experiences from your past would you bring back for today's kids if you could?

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Moms and dads having their known roles and sticking to it.

Mom going to the grocery once a week and cooking what dad likes, and we have to eat the exact same thing, no matter what...clean your plate. I remember my mom getting so feed up with me once she smushed the plate in my face. (Though she doesn't remember that when brought up today, but my siblings do)

Dad not hesitating to throw a spoon/roll/whatever at you at the table for frankly disrespecting table etiquette.

The sound of Dad's belt whipping out thru the loops in his pants.

Meant to add here...mom taking off her flimsy house slipper to hit you with it, though you had to learn to fake cry so she'd stop cause you wanted to laugh. The fake crying would help avoid the "wait til your dad gets home" threat, cause she felt she got her point across without him.

Long arse road trips and driving around at night for an hour or so looking for motels with the vacancy light turned on with the "no" off. Road trips where you either slept on each other in the back or looked out the window and listened to dads favorite kind of music as we had no opinion that mattered to him.

Cheap warm cola bottle that's flat as heck found under Mom's seat the next morning. Sugar pick me up of champs right there.

Obviously majority of the other stuff mentioned too.

Saturday morning cartoons then WWF time. Brothers and I would then start imitating them and their moves jumping off couches/beds/etc. Then mom getting fed up with the ruckus and sending us outside for the rest of the day.

Freaking high metabolism where you could eat a ton and it burned off with in mins.

Dad getting pissed and yelling at us as we ran out the door because he just noticed we used up all his electrical tape on wrapping up our wiffle ball bats/balls.

Good times indeed...