What did you survive as a child?

[CBC News]

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This story sparked a discussion in our newsroom this morning about what we survived as children. From falling off monkey bars to lawn darts, the list was enlightening or frightening depending on how you look at it.

Tell us: What did you survive as a child?


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[missile]

Does falling off a two storey roof qualify? Or surviving a hammer attack from my cousin?

 

[Scott Free]

I survived riding a bike without a helmet.

I survived buying cigarettes for my dad.

I survived riding in the back of pickups.

I survived never wearing a seatbelt.

I survived in Canada before it was a nation of pathetic pussies.

 

[tracy]

Hello? Lawndarts anyone? I still wonder how someone thought giving a bunch of kids giant darts and sending them outside was a good idea.

My other favorite was my wood burning set. You got this thing that became hot enough for you to burn designs into wood. I was probably 11, and yes, I burned myself a couple of times.

 

[dancing-loon]

I survived riding a bike without a helmet.

I survived buying cigarettes for my dad.

I survived riding in the back of pickups.

I survived never wearing a seatbelt.

I survived in Canada before it was a nation of pathetic pussies.

:lol::lol:

O.K., I survived the war!!! :grin:

 

[darkbeaver]

I survived a bad concusion concussion head injury when I fell on my head from five feet high on the only rock in the niegbourhood and my mothers cooking which was essentially boiling everything, everything that wasn't boiled was burned, somethings were burned while being boiled.

 

[karrie]

I survived riding with drunks in vehicles with no seat belts... but there was probably only a 1/4 as much traffic then.

I survived biking with no helmet, but, again, there was hardly any traffic and people were expected to drive 30 in residential areas and watch for kids. Now they do 50, talking on their cells, and then complain 'cause we have to 'pussies' and put helmets on our kids.

I survived drinking untreated water from the river.

I survived swimming in the river.

I survived finding out that the biggest bull we ever owned liked to lie down for back scratches. How many kids now climb into the corals and sit and scratch massive animals?

I survived being left home alone much of the summer from about 10 yrs old on. Sure, we had knife fights and tried to drown one another. But, we lived through it.

But the key thing I survived, is the deaths of various friends and family due to no seat belts. The deaths of friends due to drunk driving. The death of a friend's son because he was dirt biking with no helmet. The severe injuries of assorted friends and family members in rig equipment and farm equipment. The death of a young girl on a bike that an acquaintance hit with her car and killed (head trauma was cause of death). I've survived seeing 'what could have happened' all around me, and so I'm smart enough to teach my kids to live cautiously and take safety seriously.

Because, let's admit it... the people who moan the loudest about all the stuff they survived, my parents, would KILL me if I forgot one of those 'pussy' safety rules we live by now, and it ended in the death of one of my kids.

 

[Scott Free]

Natural selection baby. In about three more generations, when Canada is populated with nothing but retarded diabetics, the truth will be obvious to everyone else. Canada, as usual, will be blissfully unaware.

 

[karrie]

Natural selection implies ability to adapt to an environment. If someone sees that an area is dangerous and so takes safety measures so that their child survives, THAT is natural selection. If someone's too stubborn to put up with the laws and lets their kid die in traffic, yes, natural selection, but, no more so than the parent who was intelligent enough with their proginy to help them survive. Natural selection is about adapting and moving forward. You might want to take a closer look at who is and who isn't.

 

[scratch]

childhood
:lol:

 

[Unforgiven]

My parents were kind of busy by the time I came along. Also my father was a drill sergent in the military so that made for some fun times. I also had two brothers and sisters who were older than me. I remember one of my brothers tieing my hands and feet, blindfolding me and telling me to go get someone else to untie me. Hopping down the hallway I hit the wall at the end and knocked down a coocoo clock that broke a couple of my teeth.

Of course life was much more dangerous once I could get out of the house on my own. :smile:

 

[lone wolf]

I survived spankings. I survived riding in (standing, even) cars without seatbelts and and with painted metal dashboards full of pointed metal knobs. I survived lead-based painted walls and toys. I survived tab-and-slot metal toys. I survived walking the mile to school (and coming home for lunch) without an adult holding my hand. I survived riding my tricycle on the street. I survived a thousand toboggan rides down Graveyard Hill. I survived Doctor Spock's Baby Book. Damn! With all the safety crap, cocoons and bubbles kids live in now, it's a wonder I survived at all.

 

[Risus]

I survived bike riding with no helmet, riding in cars with no seatbelts in cars with steel dashboards and spinners on the wheels, toboganning, playing lawn darts, shooting tin cans with bb guns and 22s, drinking untreated water and powdered milk, keeping racoons as pets, dog bites, lead painted toys, asbestous ceiling tiles, digging snow tunnels, snowball fights, no flu shots, lighting fire crackers under tin cans, playing with chemistry sets, etc, etc. And I grew up normal...

 

[Kreskin]

I survived a fractured skull at age 3.

I survived getting a lacrosse ball square in the eye.

I survived playing lacrosse without a cup.

I survived living in a urea formaldehyde insulated home.

I survived trying to hitchhike at age 4.

I survived playing ball hockey in Okalla Prison against inmates.

I survived living with an ex girlfriend.

I survived rolling a car.

I survived George Bush (so far).

 

[Tonington]

-Axe to the head when I was 4. A nice scar near my hairline.

-Split the bridge of my nose open when I was in Grade 1 on a metal playground thing with two springs. A big horse that rocked back and forth. That scar isn't very noticeable. I guess I survived the age of metal and wood playgrounds.

-Fell off a rope I was hanging/climbing upside down on, while my friend rocked it about. Hit the support on my treehouse and landed about 11 feet down on my neck/shoulder. That was just a dislocated shoulder. A few weeks with no handwriting in grade 3.

-Pushed my moms car into neutral. Went across the road, knocked the mirror off when it scraped a tree, and it came to a rest on the lip of a pond. If I had of gone in, that was the shallow end. That was probably grade 4.

-Fell through that same pond one winter, before the bus came to pick us up. I had to run inside and change out of my freezing cold clothes, put some on and run back out to catch the bus. I think that was grade 3.

-Grade 8 I backed my moms car into the studio at our place. Knocked the corner post off by about 4 inches. I thought when I moved the car forward to wash it, I could back it up too, lol.

Lots of other things of course, the standard little dumbass stuff. Survived the broken window from my slapshot. Thought dad was going to kill me!

 

[talloola]

I survived an extremely disfunctional home as a child. A father who was a cronic alchoholic,
and I knew more about alchoholism and drying out, by the time I was 15,( I could have opened my own alchohol rehab institution), and getting through extreme family
fights, and then, when that was over, a mother who was bitter, and negative for the rest
of her life, but she was loyal and true blue and didn't drink a drop, but she did not have any
outward love to give, but I understood it was 'in there' somewhere, so, now that I am older, I look back and see the best in the both of them, and forget the awful stuff.
They are both gone now, and I feel sad that they didn't have a good life as individuals at
all, so, I make sure that I am.

 

[gopher]

I came from an exceedingly dysfunctional home and endured an abortion attempt {my mother was deliberately poisoned and forcibly sterilized}, tortuous child abuse, being dropped on my head, being thrown down a flight of stairs, childhood pneumonia, and a few other of life's infinite variety of niceties. And those are just the nice things.

 

[Lester]

whenI was 3 I drank about 1/4 pint of sewing machine oil(stomach pumped) , fell/jumped off a six ft fence and broke my leg when I was five.

 

[talloola]

I came from an exceedingly dysfunctional home and endured an abortion attempt {my mother was deliberately poisoned and forcibly sterilized}, tortuous child abuse, being dropped on my head, being thrown down a flight of stairs, childhood pneumonia, and a few other of life's infinite variety of niceties. And those are just the nice things.

Gopher thats horrible, you suffered terribly, that's not fair, should not happen, and
I'm sorry all of those things happened to you.