What things did you do as a child that you got into trouble for?

[Amy10223]

When I was small, I tried smoking my mother's cigarettes with a friend in the bathroom. I also just went with another girl to her house after school without telling my mother about it (that happened when I was very young and didn't know any better). My mother thought someone had taken me and I couldn't understand why she as crying when I got home. Other than that, I was a good kid and didn't cause problems at home at all.

For my first crime, my father told me that if he ever caught me smoking again, or begin that habit, he would make me eat the cigarette, and I believed him. For the second time nothing happened, he was relieved but I was scolded never to do it again.

[AviatorTom]

We had a rule that when the streetlights came on, you had 5 minutes to get home. There were a couple times... well, quite a few times... when my friends and I were playing and didn't notice the lights coming on (at least that was the story we told our parents).

My parents had an old typewriter that they kept in the basement. They never used it. So, one day (I think I was about 8), I decided to take it apart to see how it worked, then put it back together. Well, the taking apart went fine, but I couldn't get it back together. Turns out the typewriter was my grandfather's, who passed away before I was born. My mother was pretty upset. I think I went hungry that night, banished to my room instead of dinner.

[Amy10223]

You had a strict mother. I could never do that to my kids, I was soft with them except when they did dangerous things. I have one of those typewriters, very old fashioned that my youngest picked up from a thrift shop. It's in my garage. I was once going to give it to my cousin, who is a historian, but she got upset and I couldn't.

[Bricealan]

@amy10223 Embarassing, but you did ask, AND I was only 5 years old at the time. My older girl cousin (don't know how old she was at the time maybe 9 or 10) had me "playing doctor' under a blanket at her house. What did I know at 5?

Later showing my 5 year old neighborhood boy what she did, I was discovered by my dad's housekeeper, and what a nightmare she caused.

I ended up in Phoenix Arizona with my mom and brother... and my mother was the most inattentive mother a kid could have... Lucky I survived that nightmare

[Amy10223]

Not fair at all. Your Dad took her word over yours--a 5 yr old. :(

[Bricealan]

@amy10223 The whole incident was very traumatic for a 5 year old, and I can't believe the ignorance of adults at that time for the way they handled the entire situation

[Amy10223]

I can imagine! And you did nothing wrong, so I can see how confused and traumatized yo must have been.
Adults can be very ignorant. I remember my ex telling me about how his parents handled discipline at home--they left it to his uncle. And so, when they thought he misbehaved, his uncle would lock him up in a bathroom with the lights turned off. Very cruel in my opinion. He got so angry that he had a bat and broke it in the bathroom.

[MemeSupreme]

when i was with my dad? all kinds of shit bc i was by myself all the time so neighbors would have to tell him. like i once set a pile of leaves on fire that was too big

when i was with my mom and step-dad? i already got in trouble for stupid stuff so i learned to lie them and get away with stuff. only a few times did i not care like when i went to school drunk twice in 8th grade. i knew i was gonna get beat for that lol

[Amy10223]

How did you manage to get alcohol in the 8th grade? My niece got in trouble for that too. With my own daughter, I found a small bottle of gin in her room. I just took it away and didn't say anything--my mistake.

[MemeSupreme]

oh it was just my dad's vodka and rum

[Nikki1989]

I did many bad things, but never got caught doing any of them.

[mstbooblover]

At the border school, guessing correctly but innocently where and how another student had thrown away the keys of a storage cabinet. The police interrogated me during a few hours, in vain of course. At last the real culprit was found. Very silly stupid situation actually from different points of view.

When I was around 12, I once found on the sidewalk a box of matches, which my stepmother found in my pocket. She told her father who was police officer. The guy had no better idea to force me smoking a cigar, probably to discourage me to smoke. I never ever had had the idea to smoke. One more proof of stupidity on behalf of would-be educators...

[msc545]

When I think back on it. Not much really. I was a pretty good kid and I didn't have a lot of rules to follow. I remember when I was a little bit older and I used to go to visit neighbors that lived kind of far away by riding my bicycle almost daily or at least in the evening.

[Amy10223]

You didn't tell your parent about it? And I guess they didn't find out.