PARENTS BACK THEN WERE SO MEAN! (TikTok Compilation!)

[@allenruss2976]

"if you don't stop crying I'll give you something to cry about" worked every time

[@ScottMayo420]

If I had a dollar for everytime I heard that. It kinda sucks we are the older crowd now. But I'm still smoking weed and enjoying life.

[@IreneS91780]

Yep that’s what I always heard too. Lol

[@whitewatersarah9824]

I definitely heard that growing up

[@amyblasingim2136]

Loved that one. Another favorite “I brought you into this world and I can take you out too”

[@DystOptimist]

Saying you were bored in the 80s meant you got a free ticket to go clean the garage.

[@Jtr_ceral_killer]

Or mow the lawn. Pull weeds, steam clean the carpet

[@juttapopp1869]

Who would have been dumb enough to go and tell mum that?? We knew what would happen!

[@EmmaBadOne]

Or if you got in trouble hours after complaining you were bored you got, "Next time you find me. Oh, I'll give you something to do".

[@carla6558]

Me. It was me who was dumb enough to tell my Dad I was bored. Me thinking I would cash in on my "Daddy's girl" status and backfiring big time.​@@juttapopp1869

[@aaronb7990]

Lol, my dad would tell me. Well, I can be the chairman of the board, would you like me to start a meeting with your mom to figure you what you should do? At which point I would exit stage left realizing he just gave me an exit oppertunity before chores got assigned 😂

[@pablo81778]

"It's 10 pm, do you know where your children are"

[@williambanks2223]

Probably not. 😂

[@suzannegraham344]

Lol we didn't come in till the lights came on then they remembered they had us 😂

[@allenruss2976]

Yep as a kid in the 70s I only stuck my fingers in an outlet once. I only touched a hot stove once. I only stuck my fingers in hot oil once. I was allowed to learn these lessons on my own. All were before the age of four

[@tt8807]

As a kid in the 80s I learned when I stuck my finger on the car cigarette lighter while mom ran in the jewel, I needed to suck up my tears quick. Bc the pain was better than mom finding out!😂

[@allenruss2976]

@tt8807 you never admitted to any injury if you could avoid it

[@victorclemente-mt4to]

@@allenruss2976, back then we didn’t cry or tell our parents. We were too embarrassed of our stupidity to say anything. We learned and moved on.

[@pfcampos7041]

@@victorclemente-mt4to yeah that and my older sisters kicking my a** for telling

[@Cocreatewithus]

Slim Sheri, as always, the most spot on. "Get off the damn shed!!!!!!!" Yes, accurate.

[@bryanCJC2105]

"It's 10:00, do you know where your children are?" was the advertisement that came on TV at 10pm. That was supposed to remind parents to look for us.

[@mztweety1374]

I was in the house because you better be in the house by the time the street lights come on..

[@trinity6180]

That was curfew during the school week. If teens were out after that they would be picked up by the cops. Parents would get a call. Then they had to take time off work to go to court. Also, if you think the strictness parent had was bad you should focus on how much more strictly we boomer grew up with. We started being much easier on our kids than precious generations. Look where that has led. These are comedy which means by nature they are exaggerated. They are very funny,

[@milissasilks2174]

Someday parents will find a sweet spot between our parents and what we became. Kids need discipline, not neglect. As a gen X I think we overcorrected a bit too much. We promised ourselves that we would treat our kids the way we wanted to be treated. We did that. We made a mistake. There has to be a medium level of parenting where consequences actually fit the circumstance, but consequences DO happen.

[@dawnr6381]

You hit the nail on the head.

[@Denise-t4z]

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[@biliegh_itiswhatitis]

You’ll be pickin your teeth up off tha floor, do it! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Jtr_ceral_killer]

I'm surprised I dont have a flat spot on the back of my head from being smacked for being stupid and getting caught doing stupid things.

[@AB2B]

You're bored? Spit and catch it. You're bored? Come on up, I need help shingling the roof. You're bored? Great, I've got another paintbrush, and the shutters still need a couple of coats of paint. Oh, they had things to keep us from being bored, this is why you always found something to do and kept yourself occupied all day.

[@dyanad1]

Yes it was like that back in the day! I shit you not, they used to have commercials that said "It's 10pm do you know where your kids are" and they had commercials to remind our parents to hug us. It was a different world and I think we need a smidge of that back to help the kids develop their independence.

[@tdstellar5218]

“Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me” “Cut your own switch, and if it’s not big enough, I’ll cut it for you” If you ain’t bleeding, you ain’t t hurting

[@Cocreatewithus]

Even if you're bleeding...go rub some dirt on it

[@gingergamingchannel3160]

Yep. I'm 42 and my body has basically gave up on me. When Drs ask why I don't have much of a medical history as a child I tell them I grew up being told if you ain't bleeding out you'll live go walk it off lol.

[@flattop223]

5:47 the advert that you're talking about is at 10:00 every night on the TV it would come up with "it's currently 10:00 p.m. Do You know where your children are?" when I was about 12, I hated the 10:00 p.m. reminder, that was my curfew, and it was a reminder for my parents to make sure I was home on time... every night. At 16 I no longer had a curfew, if I did not have school the next day, if I did have school the next day, my curfew was midnight, but that is because I usually worked a 5:00 to 12:00 shift at Burger King 3 school nights a week, then on Fridays and Saturdays I'd work 7:00 pm to 2:00 am. My parents didn't know when I got my first job at a bar and grill when I was 12, washing dishes, I told the owner I couldn't start until 7:00 pm and Sunday through Thursday I had to be off and gone by 9:55 pm, absolutely no exceptions to that and on Friday and Saturday I could could start earlier but could only stay until 11:55 pm, again with no exceptions. I worked there for almost 2 months before my parents found out, and I kept that job for a year and a half, then my grades got bad in 8th grade, and they made me quit, until I got my grades up.

[@04m11]

All of that was true 💯! The stuff in the 80s would get you arrested quickly with a swat team

[@AntaresSelket]

Numerous times me and my siblings were told that if we didn't shut up in the car we were going to get back-handed. It was normal to see children being disciplined with a smack in a store, and the worse whippings we got were from a leather belt or the sole of a wooden sandal. But the worse discipline to go through was the 20 minute lecture. The entire time I was wishing for a quick smack so I could get on with my day. Then "politically correct" hit the 90's and life began to change.

[@inthedarkanonymous5625]

My kid brother imploring my Dad “Just please don’t talk to me.”

[@LuvRetro80s]

As a Gen x kid, I appreciate my parents that came from the silent generation!

[@DBShouse69]

That first one was NOT authentic. We were never told twice to do something. If you didn't do what you were told to after the first time, the next words you hear might be, "Oh look, he's waking up". There were immediate consequences if you do what you were told.

[@johncalvosa]

I grew up in the 70's. Made the 80's look calm.

[@rogerboltin4508]

Dad was in the army during Vietnam, let me rephrase that. Dad was a drill instructor, in the 60s, during Vietnam. I've known since I was 3 that Full Metal Jacket was, let's say, realistic. I thought every kid woke up on the weekend with 5'-6" of "needing to teach me a lesson" slamming pots and pans next to their head. I still remember his monologe (door kicked open) BANG, BANG BANG!!! "GET UP YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE. YOUR MOM MADE YOU BREAKFAST. IF YOU'RE NOT DOWN STAIRS IN 90 SECONDS IN EATING IT" I was 6.

[@sybilsworld569]

💛 The photo albums, were as life was lived. Theyd start with the kids & family young, then gradually go on to when the kids went thru school, prom, football, cheerleader, to graduation. The best was seeing the fashions change thru the years. 🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤

[@nicoleyoung947]

my grandma used to tell me (a hard head makes for a soft behind.) And the light socket short is accurate. Parent's let you learn the hard way 😂

[@ruthparker9756]

We're all thankful that we weren't constantly being photographed and videoed 😅

[@LS-kc5xg]

@ruthparker9756 i feel so bad for kids today. Honestly some of the things I did would have ruined me in today's world. You do stupid things when your brain isn't developed.

[@gingergamingchannel3160]

Born in 82. My mom would say things like I will knock you through that wall or I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it 😂😂😂. Around 14 I thought I was a big man and gonna tell my mom no well...... I ended up on the floor with my mom standing over me with a cast iron skillet saying you think you grown still?

[@markmartineau1015]

My mother was the one to use a switch on us . Dad was more creative we would have to kneel on concrete for a duration and if we would continue fighting with each other he had us put our hands under our knees . Needless to say we 3 boys didn’t fight to much after a while.

[@TheMadeofhonor]

The 80's was a blast! There was always partying going on. We lived near Chesapeake beach so we would always swim, party on the beach, play strip poker in our vehicles, hang out in the woods. We'd have music blasting on our Boomboxes and have a couple shots before School while waiting at the bus stop. Kept us warm in the Winter. We had a smoking area outside of School so we would go out there and smoke weed during lunch.

[@dawnmarieallenkent2495]

The pics taken... shared amongst friends... hidden away in closets or boxes.... Never saw the light of day to the adults!

[@epongeverte]

My Boomer parents: Dad: Taught me how to swim by throwing me into the middle of the pool and saying, "you better swim if you want to live." Taught me how to ride my bike by taking off the training wheels then pushing me down a hill with a busy road at the bottom and a drop-off past that that fell into a creek. I had to learn quickly or risk death. He didn't know how old I was, what grade I was in, who my teachers were, what my grades were, who my friends were, when my birthday was, and maybe even forgot my middle name, but I better listen to him, or else. Mom: Gone all day doing something, brought home pizza or take out just before dad came home from work. Expected us to wash the dishes, take out the trash, vacuum the floor, clean the bathroom, clean our own room, dust the house, mow the grass, rake the leaves, clean the gutters on the roof and shovel the snow. After that, we were to go outside and play. The door would be locked until dark. Maybe a snack would be offered at some point, and maybe not. Drink from the hose if thirsty.

[@BAD46660]

It was well known that in the late '70's the parents of a girl who lived around the corner had "swinger" parties at their house. And yes it was the '70's...😂😂

[@tt8807]

Ewww😂

[@insightful1695]

I’ll kick your butt into next week

[@jenniferclark8051]

Aging as a parent can be so great when you have a healthy relationship with your adult child! My daughter, now 27, and I can now be friends. I only have to be mom occasionally. She is living her full on adult life, and we can now share adult stories. I am so glad I did not try to be her best friend when my job was to raise her to be whom she is now❤

[@jpester8204]

Every weekend, by 9 am, my Father would walk up to us and say, "Go find something to do or I will". This meant the WORST chores , so even if we just sat on the corner for hours, still better than being home .

[@sanlee2611]

And if you threatened to call CPS or runaway, your parents will call your bluff by picking up the phone and daring you to call CPS or pack your suitcase and put it outside the front door

[@biliegh_itiswhatitis]

My mom legit told the cops, Take em, go ahead, you will bring them bastards back 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sanlee2611]

@biliegh_itiswhatitis 🤣🤣🤣

[@dawnr6381]

My older sister ran away from home once. When my mom found out where she was, my mom told my sister get home or else. My sister was home within the hour and I never found out the or else part. I don’t know if this is good or bad but we came from what was considered a happy family.

[@lindaostrom570]

no one needs an ungrateful brat. we struggle to raise you we arent putting up with your shit.

[@courtneyhuntington5262]

My mom said by the time the cops came they’d have a reason to arrest her. Never threatened to call the cops again on my mom.

[@abigailjohnson4270]

You’d never have mentioned ‘bored’ to my parents. Never. My dad was incredibly strict. You didn’t breathe without permission. And my mum? Well…. 😳

[@rev.jimmywonko9615]

My dad helped me build a bike ramp and I wiped hard. Mom put Methiolate on 3 wounds that probably needed stitches and I think their laughter brought them together and strengthened their marriage.

[@RebeccaMorris-v6m]

Yeah what was up with the sadistic laughter they always had 'when we learned a lesson'?! It's like they were waiting to watch us so they could laugh at us instead of warning us or making sure we didn't get hurt. They also refused to take us to the doctor/hospital afterwards.

[@jermaineforte5965]

It's all true.

[@AnyaMidkiff]

"You want what? Yeah, well, people in hell want icewater..." 😂😂

[@sharonbryant2384]

I was born in 1978. These are all very accurate! In fact, my parents were so uninvolved that I only have like 6 pictures total from my childhood, my parents gave us alcohol at 5yrs old, I wrote my own sick notes per my parents' approval, and they never wanted us in the house. They never stopped you from electrocuting yourself or other stupid stuff because they thought you needed to learn the hard hard way. If you were crying, they would give you something to really cry about. Our parents watched us kids shoot bottle rockets, Roman candles, and firecrackers at each other. They actually encouraged it. Life for Gen X really was survival of the fittest with parents that didn't really care about you. Our parents were the baby boomers, the silent generation, and the tail end of the Greatest Generation.

[@merfwriter]

I was born in 1982 and an elder millennial with baby boomer parents. My parents punished us kids by spanking us on the bottom with their hand and sending us to time out in our bedroom. My parents were also warm and loving and very involved in our lives.

[@martiantexan7632]

The school of hard knocks teaches many great lessons.

[@victorclemente-mt4to]

Shock from an outlet won’t kill you or injure you. It’s just a quick zap ⚡️

[@arianwen91]

the get off the shed one is a will ferrell sketch from SNL.

[@Jkarsjens]

No bruises no crime

[@tt8807]

I honestly deserved 98% of the smacks my mom dished out across my face. Never even hurt, just humiliating when in public and infuriating as a teen. I also knew there was a difference between the smacks she’d give and the blows other kids would get…night and day.

[@blackwidow5762]

Sure, use that excuse for a child and it's discipline. But if I try that with gen x and boomer customers who couldn't practice that discipline and themselves and decide to act like the toddlers they raised, then suddenly it's assault.

[@daisy4495]

Parents in the 80s didn't put up with our bullshit.

[@KatyFaulkner-f6c]

Gen X as parents, we were waiting to tell our kids what we got up too! Haahaa! Shock factor is fantastic!

[@RainOfPearls]

I'm an old millenial... (As in I still know how to use a rotary phone) and I stopped getting spanked with the wooden spoon after mom broke two in a row on my butt and I laughed at her. After that, the threat became that that my dad would be told when he got home.

[@flattop223]

6:22 a shock like that wouldn't kill you, it sure heard a lot but it wouldn't kill you most of the time, my sister and I used to play with one of the sockets in her bedroom, sticking wires in there and then touching them to each other things like that just to find out what it would do, things we knew we weren't allowed to do but we did it in her bedroom because nobody could see us in there, my bedroom too many people walked by in the hallway and I share it with my brother who was a lot older, it's amazing we never cut the house on fire. We never actually caught anything on fire in the house the only place that we caught something on fire was in the treehouse, and that was scary my sister took off and left me to deal with the fire, I got it put out, and nobody else ever found out.

[@jekmr84]

Correct maybe if you have a heart problem or something.

[@lindaostrom570]

we used to go down to the railroad tracks and put pennies on the rails and wait for the train. we were absolutely not allowed to do this but hey we roamed all over our communities on our bikes , be home when the street lights come on! most of us made it out alive .

[@flattop223]

@lindaostrom570 agree 100% I did the pennies on the track too, it was not a problem and my parents were fine with it, the train tracks were literally across the street from my house, train tracks are what separated the street I lived in from the Pacific Coast Highway. The hardest problem with the pennies on the track was finding the pennies after the train passed.

[@robertherring9277]

Yeah... as an Xer, got punched in the face numerous times by my dad... and hit with all sorts of shit. Whatever was within reach, really. There were rarely threats and ZERO warnings if by maybe the 3rd time they told you. Strike 3 kid. Youre out!

[@blackwidow5762]

Yeah, that's fucked. How the hell are you supposed to learn if you're not told what's wrong first? Gentle parenting may get a lot of flack because of the permissive parents, but the whole point is to verbally communicate before you carry any punishment out. If you don't have the patience for it you shouldn't be a parent.

[@EmmaBadOne]

I learned to love the taste of soap but to be fair it didn't really clean my vocabulary. I also learned to love the taste of tobasco sauce and find it not much spicier than tomato juice today. IYKYK

[@ghar7578]

The kid getting electrocuted is more real than you think... i even did that and i got that same saying "i bet you're not gonna do that again" hahahaha that's why we had to be fast learners and survivors That "i'm gonna give you something to cry about" is overly used in hispanoamerica, as mexican we use to hear that from every mom everywere xD oh! and if you deserved it, you got knocked down by his "chancla" or even worst, dad use to put his belt on water so it get heavy and do more pain in your ass when you didn't obey your mom after she yelled at you and give you the "chancla". damn, that belt hurt really bad sometime you get the skin printed with the texture or draws of that leather belt.

[@lindaostrom570]

i used that line all the time. highly effective.

[@toodlescae]

Yup. Only took one time being glued to a hanger I tried to use to pry a plug out of the outlet. My Dad's best friend kicked me loose with his cowboy boot. Singed my finger tips good.

[@FemOne43EMB]

It was the 80’s and tons of weed was smoked - or was that just me ., 😂😂

[@SergePoitras-hj4ip]

Hash was way more common then pot

[@LS-kc5xg]

I totally get the "in my day..." is annoying. And also my grandma legit would pack us food and send us into the woods with instructions that she wouldnt unlock the door until dinner.

[@KiraBKADestroyerOfWorlds]

Wait, into the _woods??"_

[@LS-kc5xg]

@KiraBKADestroyerOfWorlds haha yeah the woods! We were country folk, so she lived surrounded by acres of woods. Honestly it was pretty fun. But wild to think back on.

[@rejara]

Slim Sherri: I wouldn't get told I'd get punched in the face, but I'd definitely get the "Your ass is about to match my Red Right Hand if you don't get off the shed!!" 2nd short: 100% accurate with the 80's style. We were very much the 'be seen and not heard' generation. Timmy: I never had it that bad, but it seemed like it. I'd get home when the street lights came on (or the sun went down, which ever happened first), and I'd be greeted with shock and surprise because they forgot about me in the silence. 4th "Not gonna do that again, are ya" is 100% accurate. You'd get one warning, then they'd just sit back and watch and wait, then laugh when you do the thing you aren't supposed to. 5th: The chasing the kid with a slipper for upsetting a teacher: That part is also 100% true. I got my ass handed to me on a silver platter for making the teacher call my parents! 80's parents stop crying: Yeah, I'd regularly get the "You'd best stop or I'd give you something to cry about!" Scrapbooks: #emotionaldamage - Side note: the 80's was 100% the peer pressure decade of the 20th century! #flexer :P

[@MrApocalyptica83]

if one one time i have a child as a gen X i ll be an old fashion dad of the 70'80's

[@Wiccan-do-it]

I'm gen x. .We were taught right from wrong and we were bought up to use manners and have respect. These days there aren too many snowflakes that take offence to everything

[@blackwidow5762]

Tell me about it. I told the gen x I actually enjoy being disciplined and they got easily offended.

[@juttapopp1869]

No, everybody was NOT doing cocaine, defrauding people or filming themselves having s.x in the eighties. We didn't even have or need tinder.

[@dorothyirons1758]

They had to remind parents in the 80s they had kids like dead azz at 10 pm ask do you know where your kids are every night 😂

[@rebeccadavis3522]

I remember sassing my mother one time when I was 16 years old. One time, too many! One minute standing in the kitchen sassing my mother, the next laying on the floor in the dining room with daze eyes and my face stinging! That hand came out of nowhere! She stood over me, pointed her finger, and said, "You ever disrespect me or talk to me again like that, and you won't see the light of day! I brought you into this world, and I'll take you out, you hear me, Missy!" Learned my lesson as they say quick, fast, and in a hurry! Never did that again! Mama didn't play, and neither did Daddy! I have a brother and a sister, and all three of us grew up to be honest, hard-working, respectful people. Thanks, Mama and Daddy, for bringing us up the right way and teaching us life lessons even if a few times we had to learn the hard way.

[@RebeccaMorris-v6m]

Boomers were ruthless. Not only did most of them beat the crap out of their kids but their friends and strangers would egg them on. You have no idea the amount of times we'd see kids getting a beating in a store or on the street. Other adults would scream things like 'get em' 'show them who's boss' etc. Either that or we'd see kids getting kicked out of cars on the road and left behind. Most of them meant 'don't make me pull this car over' which usually included a beating and miles of walking. I wish we were exaggerating. It was really that bad for GenX.

[@hillbillymike5941]

The one about the electricity. It took me 3 times to learn.

[@AnyaMidkiff]

"Options? For dinner? Sure, you got two of them: take it or leave it. If you're hungry, you'll eat..." 😂

[@dorothyirons1758]

😂naw everyone parents was like that in the 80s😂

[@suzannegraham344]

As a child of the 80s myself IT WAS WILDLY DIFFERENT 😂😂😂

[@troylange5838]

Im 61 one of my grandfatherseas ploughing the prairie behind the oxen at six. He got grade 1, he could read so he taught himself. I never met my other Grandfather, he just never came home from the war. My step Grandfather fought in the south pacific. He was an active logger in the B.C. rainforest until 65. My father was born on the farm like all the rest of the kids. He got grade 8. As a child he would hitch up the team and pick up the kids on the other farms. After they got to school he would have to go to the the stables and care for the horses. By this time they had tractors but still they had to work the farm. While the men were in the fields the females took care of lighter jobs. All team effort. Then I was born. Man landed on the moon, I watched television and rode a bike. Now why would these people who had witnessed two world wars and the great depresion, the spanish flu, tuberculosis, who had stormed the beaches of Normandy as basically children, just why would they think I could walk to school by myself or stay outside for the day. Why, why, why?

[@AP-gb3eh]

I did that with an electrical outlet in the 60 s I got a blowback shock and a smack for blowing a fuse. The line was Go get me something to bear you with 😊Eddie Murphy did a great special about his childhood in the 80 S it’s hysterical.

[@monicahendricks8563]

I was that 80’s parent but if I had to tell something twice was not going to end well for you. Now my daughter is following in my footsteps steps.

[@dr.indeanadegraff6929]

I'm a Gen Xer - parents were born in the great generation not boomer. Boomers were hippie types real lax, swingers etc, the Great Gen was hard core - they went thru WWII. They did not hold back from a punch to the face. And any drug use? You were kicked out, never allowed back; three of my siblings were kicked out at 15 yrs old. Not allowed back home - ever.

[@flattop223]

13:31 the things that they were saying everybody was doing it in the 80s no... There were drugs being done in the 80s lots of them but most of the high schoolers and stuff did pot, basically the same as it is now they smoked pot and sat around and did nothing. I mean sure there were kids that did Coke and everything else but for the most part it was pot. And there may have been sex in orgy parties but I never went to one or even heard of one in the area that I lived in

[@williambanks2223]

8:51 I waited for him to say, " You stop crying, or i'll give you something to cry about. " You want to know what that meant? Just try them.

[@amyblasingim2136]

Not just the 80’s. My kids only told me once that they were bored, I had them empty out from under the bathroom sink and the kitchen sink and then put it all back 😂

[@mztweety1374]

My dad used to tell us to go play on 8 Mile😂😂😂 which was fine by me because McDonald's was across 8 Mile 😂😂😂

[@tamnovak]

"You're bleeding - can you walk/move it? You're fine - go outside!

[@NickiSixx1]

The thing is we were never bored back then. There was always something to do

[@abigailjohnson4270]

I might be way more modern mum than mine, but seriously - ‘gentle parenting’ ain’t it… manners, decent behaviour, having respect for others. And yes, they’ll get told off. They had time outs. I didn’t hit my kids. Just wouldn’t. But they knew their boundaries, as did their friends. And I’m gong to say it - kids these days just have no idea. None. They’d never cope with what I had. And don’t ever use bribery to get good behaviour. Ever. My mother was the Queen of the Quiet Threat. And they weren’t nice either.

[@seansimms8503]

Bro, alot of us born in the 1960s and 1970s were the kids of Great Depression parents😂hell, their grandparents were like Civil War types...some hard people, we got whoppings with a buckleless leather belt from like the 1920s 😂rawhide, leather, that mug hurt😂then to make matters worst, when you messed up and knew what was coming pops would tell you why you was getting a whoppin and then say, go get the belt😂😂😂used to be walking slow ass hell😂😂😂

[@FujishimaAkiko]

They didn't just threaten us... They also followed through... Most of us didn't even get that warning. Sure, you could call the cops... buuuuutttt, they'd always side with your parents and tell you that you deserved it. I won't unload the darkness of my childhood here, but yeah, that was a mere speck of having Boomer parents.

[@angelagraves865]

(5:55) Titus was one hilarious show!

[@matthewmuller4325]

Yea, some others have said it…saying you’re bored or just looking like, well Dad has a way to make sure you were not bored any more. If there was absolutely nothing that needs to be done, Dad would give me busy work. It would be the middle of summer and Dad would send me out with an ax to the wood pile to slit wood for the fire place, or send me out to cut the grass even when it did not need it. 😂

[@RaesWorld723]

My grandmother referred to my brother and me as "little Hellions" I remember getting asked if I believed in time travel because "I'm gonna knock you so hard your gonna travel instantly into next week," my father spanked me and grounded me because I used the bathroom before making my bed. I got busted for curfew and at 14 I had to get a job to pay the fine. My mom yelled at the cop for waking her up. I spent my summers swimming and riding my bike. If I was in the house there was hell to pay! But I'd go back in an instant if I could spend the days at the pool and my evenings with my mom. You know, after the street lights came on.

[@lethasatterfield9615]

Around 1970 (I couldn't have been more than 3), my father beat me so severely that the male neighbors pulled him off of me. The unusual part of this story is that the neighbors would get involved at all because they didn't interfere back then.

[@Cynahmon-pl2ng]

Well I never told my grandma I was bored or wanted to go outside. I just did it, as long as I returned when the lights came on.

[@jerrrdy]

The adults would always say, “Oh, one day you’ll find out.” I’m finally getting what they meant. I’m finding out and they were right, it’s not fun lol

[@kerriniemi9525]

Slim Sherri is great!! The next one sounds exacty like my Mom, except it was a different soap 😂😂😂 You are definitely getting it, you almost sounded like a Dad 😊😂🙈 No much evidence here 💩💛 ✌️🍂💞

[@lentonbrown4429]

Nope, we were only told once.

[@mztweety1374]

5:56 this is from a TV show called Titus. Christopher Titus has at least 5 stand up comedy specials Chris is Hilarious.

[@asmrmentalhealth6471]

watch goodtimes the dad james evens spanking with a belt he reminds me of parents back then

[@asmrmentalhealth6471]

who agrees

[@blackwidow5762]

Yeah, a lot of parents seemed to harboring a fetish.

[@Purrfect_1]

My mom never knew my name, there was 10 girls, so when she got mad, she’d say, whatever you call yourself, come here! My dad, would always ask me the same question, what is your malfunction?

[@inthedarkanonymous5625]

Ads: “Do you know where your children are?”

[@Pammy65]

There is such a thing as “internet parenting”. They have no idea what their children are talking about

[@trishagg]

Try parenting in the 70s. They clealry didn't care if we lived. I fell out of the moving car and was bleeding from my chin and head. My mom made me get back in the car and continue on the Warehouse Paint Center for Christmas decorations. The clerk told my mom I was bleeding profusely. My mom was, like, yeah, well. She's fine. I was six.

[@kookookatchoo8208]

I remember breaking my foot on a Saturday morning on my dirtbike. My mom bought the little Suzuki 80, but when I broke my foot she cussed me for three damn hours while she had to do her hair and make-up before she was going out in public. And don't think it got easier once the cast and crutches came out....lol. Called me fuckin Hop-a-long for 8 goddamn weeks. One summer fucked up in a cast. There were a few....lol

[@rcampoify]

I had to weed a garden almost as big as our house and mow an acre lawn with a push mower

[@nerdcamel]

That is how it was when I was growing up

[@caseylee4834]

Photos of our crazy times are not around. No phone or cameras around when crazy stuff was going on

[@antoniodelarosa6549]

Other parents were allowed to hit us. We didn't mess around in a small town. Everyone knew you were in trouble before your even got home.

[@NickiSixx1]

Sometimes I’m honestly surprised I survived my teenage years, actually I’m just surprised overall course not much have changed 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@raspberrybellini]

The shed thing, yea

[@BadOmeNzGaming]

My parents forgot me and my brother at their freinds house we where out playing in the orchard they rembered us after an hour hahaa.

[@mame2776]

You'd be called everyone elses name before just being told goddamn, YOU with a finger pointing, YOU get your ass over here...oh yeah. And you NEVER wanted to go over there because something bad was going to happen to you.

[@tandaknights9047]

The stop crying line was a standard, go play in traffic, bored complaint got some sort of chore, be home by dinner time, If God had intended you to : holes in your ears he’d have put them there. We got sent to our rooms to wait for dad to get home and spank us, slapped in the face once. I was a child of parents born in the 1930s. My daughter and I had some loud altercations, tried time outs, took toys, computer time.

[@FujishimaAkiko]

No, they didn't forget who we were, they were just master roasters... They would roast the skin off of us... Why do you think GenX can destroy people with words alone? lol We learned from pros....lol

[@blackwidow5762]

No wonder you're the most entitled customers.

[@nicolecrichton9654]

Gen X here. When my 11 year old says she is bored I’m like go figure it out yourself. Just don’t get it why I have to entertain her and she expects it. Super weird and foreign concept to me!