it's spelled Puh-leese

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I never got into the rebellion thing, either. I sneaked out of the house once when I was in high school, but I left a note so my mom wouldn't worry. The next day, I got her permission to go to the friend's house where I'd gone any night I didn't have school the next morning, provided she didn't have to drive. Hardly rebellious.

I had problems with my mom, but I was pretty much the only non-rebellious child she had.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Rebelling for the sake of rebelling isn't the same thing as rebelling. Parents make mistakes, like anybody else. Sometimes, a childly form of 'civil disobedience' becomes necessary. The ability to act and think independently, after all, is an important part of critical thinking, and both are important skills to be developed.

In my case, D&D was a very important social tool among my friends and I. Socialization, teamwork, problem solving, moral development through experimentation, all are important skills. To be denied that because of my parents' ignorance would have been an injustice.

My ignoring an unjust rule was exactly the right thing for me to do.

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- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

True enough, Moose. I just have the image of an angsty, "no-one-but-me-understands-the-despair-I-feel," suburban teenager who really should know how good they have it. That I can't understand.

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Quaeso quousque humi defixa tua mens erit? Nonne aspicis, quae in templa veneris?

Its the same for me to! The air was blue and I was tickled pink with my bike. I dont regret a day of bikeing or going against their advice that time!

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Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. (Gentle in manner, resolute in execution)

Varium et mutabile semper foemina. (Woman is a ever changeful and capricious thing)

I hope I don't have daughters when it is my time to have children.

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Those that lack education have a hard time understanding its value. - Cross

What's the joke? Daughters are fathers' punishment for once being a young man?

Seeing as I don't need punishing for my youth, maybe I'll dodge that bullet.

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Quaeso quousque humi defixa tua mens erit? Nonne aspicis, quae in templa veneris?

That's what I'm hoping.

I mean, I already have a daughter - I'm just hoping to avoid the punishment part of it.

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I am sure you wont be blessed with anything like me!!
I wasnt a angsty teenager, just was fed up with being tied to the farms and wanted to be a bit independant. Going to college was chore on the bus and I wanted a bit of freedome and the bike was what I wanted so I worked to get one!

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Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. (Gentle in manner, resolute in execution)

Varium et mutabile semper foemina. (Woman is a ever changeful and capricious thing)

There are advantages to being recognized as a maverick or eccentric. I was never into the really dangerous stuff like drugs, but I've been a rebel extraordinaire ever since I can remember. There's very little I could have done as a kid or now that would surprise my parents. In many cases I knew they were wrong in a decision relating to me, and I was very vocal in making my views known. It turns out in many cases, I was right and knew better about my own needs than they did. Thank goodness they never had any problems with D&D, as I have played since 1982. My parents had never heard of it before but immediately recognized it as something right up my alley. The same is true with my interest in paganism. When I was six, I made a deal with my parents that if they wouldn't bother me about homework, I would do it without being asked. I followed through, and since I was a good student, they stuck to the agreement, and I could actually get away with not doing homework occasionally. They learned pretty quickly that it didn't pay to argue with someone who has a much stronger will than the two of them put together. And we are on good terms now and accept each other, differences and all.

A) I would never get away with that because my mother always spoke to the friends mother.
B) You lied to go fishing? What a waste of a good lie! I don't mean that in a bad way. Seriously, your parents should brag about that. So you have till morning, in your late teens. Were you out boozing it up? Nope. Were you out setting yourself up to be a teen dad? Nope! Where you doing drugs or up to deviant behavior? No, you were fishing.

OH I dunno
You could come up with a lot of ideas while waiting for a nibble

I was always pushing the limits on just about everything. When I was an early teen my friend and went to see Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke. Of course I lied when they asked me about it. That was a pretty tough whoopin'.

My parents went out of town for a weekend when I was a freshmen in HS. I decided to have a party in our brand-spankin' new house. MY dad kept kept a case of whiskey, to give to his customers, in the trunk of his car. Someone got his keys and the party really got started...then my brother burst in. People were diving out the doors. One girl broke the toilet so that every time one flushed it, the water gushed out the side. We had just planted a brand new yard so there were footprints a foot deep and much of that mud was tracked into the house.

Whoa! They took turns wailin' on me for that one.

The last time I sassed my mom, at the tender age of 17, my dad took off his belt and showed me that I was not too old to spank.

It seemed to take me a long time to learn some lessons.

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Sorry geek, this was this was when I was 12 or so. To get to the fishing spot we walked 3 miles through the railroad tracks, past the Bethlehem Steel plant and then on to the landfill. Most parents would have disapproved.

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K I misread your OP, I thought you were in your late teens when you did this.

And now with children of your own you understand some of those lessons.


I'd get a whoopin but never severe enough to prevent me from doing things again.

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Those that lack education have a hard time understanding its value. - Cross

I did quit sassing my mom!

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Albert Einstein

Coming up to 50 years since my big escape. I
was always climbing on the brick wall in our
back yard that separated us from the
neighbours. One day, my birthday, I got on the
short wall between the tall gate and house,
about a foot higher. I was hanging down ready
to drop to the ground when I felt the top
tipping away. I knew I was in deep do-do. I
made a plan, when my feet touch the ground
turn right round (very important) and run like
hell. Having made the plan it seemed ages
before my plimsoled feet reached the bottom
and I turned and moved fast. I got a yard out
and looked over my shoulder to see eight bricks
cemented together with red topping tiles
crunch into the concrete floor of the yard.

The back door flew open and Mum looked out,
saw me, saw the bricks, saw I had used up
another of my nine lives. I was onto the
next problem. Please Mum put them back before
Dad gets home. But that was silly apparently,
they would fall again.

Dad came home, saw the damage and was very
quiet. This sort of thing had happened before.
So he gave me the stamp album I had ordered
(my Birthday) and said no more climbing.

I have always remembered how blisteringly
fast my mind worked that day!

Being the second child (4 years younger) helped me get away with being a little hellion. My dear sister had pushed all the boundaries for me ahead of time. My mum's favourite line was always "I hope you have kids just like yourself someday!"

Of course my parents were never unnecessarily strict. I think they instilled a good sense of right & wrong in us from an early age and then trusted us to think for ourselves. Not to say I didn't get whomped a few t