Childhood Achievements

Have to agree with @jujube ... we went thru our early years totally unaware of all the pitfalls of everyday life. .. It seemed pretty simple and easy to us back then.

Even walking quite a distance to school when I started high school, I remember one day a guy driving by and yelling .... 'let me know when you turn 21' .... geesh ... laughed it off back then.
 

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I won an award for an essay I wrote on the American Flag when I was in 5th (?) grade. Surprised myself-it was a district-wide contest. My senior year,I won "Miss Betty Crocker Homemaker of the Year" (1968). They actually withheld some of my prizes due to the fact that I was already married-they didn`t like that at all. Sorry Mrs. Golladay-you old bat!
 
In 2nd grade I got into an argument with my teacher. Even though I was in the right she threatened to not allow me to be in the Easter play if I did not accept blame and apologize to the class - when she was in the wrong.

My mom backed me up. The teacher gave in. I learned at 7 yrs old that adults are not always right and I could stand up for myself and win. Probably a bad thing to teach a 7 yr old.
 
jujube said:
I survived my childhood. For a child of the 40's and 50's, that's pretty much of an achievement. We drank from garden hoses, we rode our bikes without helmets, we walked to school ALL BY OURSELVES, we were raised on fried food, we climbed trees and played on swingsets that were accidents waiting to happen.
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Preach it. (y) I still drink from a garden hose, my bike is now motorized and I still ride without a helmet, I still climb trees, only now it's with a chainsaw in my hand. o_O Still eat some fried food. How did we ever survive? :)
 
Having grown up with a child who hit her head and died after falling off a bicycle, I take bicycle helmet use very seriously. My children were not permitted to ride scooters, bicycles, roller or ice skates without full coverage (hockey-type) helmets.

Like most, my childhood was a mixed bag. I guess my proudest achievement was that I generally did well in school (let's not talk about biology class though).
 
Sassycakes said:
Surviving my Mom when she had her wooden spoon aimed at me. And a few times in Catholic school with very tough Nuns and their rulers.
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The wooden spoon is so funny! I used to threaten my kids with a wooden spoon, and I still get crap about it. I was even sent a picture of my grandson chewing on a wooden spoon.


My achievement? I was proudest of more high school occurances. I won a trophy that I was really proud of. First place,with a humor reading, against a slew of other people. I was really proud of that. It's still around here somewhere. And being the school mascot for a while. We were the beavers. Can you imagine wearing a beaver costume? Now it would be a bit humiliating. I was proud though.
 
I think my greatest achievement in my childhood was surviving being sent away for 6yrs to boarding schools starting at the age of 10 . The 1st one was a co-ed boarding school in Deerfield,Mass which was 500 miles away,I stayed 2 yrsThe 2nd one a girl's boarding school in Toronto, only 90miles away for 2 yrs. Then I went to live with my aunt&uncle in Balitmore,Md for 2 yrs
I finally went to a local high school here for my junior&senior yrs.It was terrifying for me coming to a new school,not knowing anybody. I did graduate but it took me yrs to forgive my parents
 
I won the Betty Crocker award too in the sixties! Never did justify it though. Made great grades and hung with the kids that did. We were looked down on by the popular kids. This past weekend was our 55th high school reunion which I did not attend as I would have to fly into Shreveport, La., rent a car and drive an hour to get there. Saw the pics on FB that it was the same groups of people that shunned us then, only older. None of my group attended. Did not miss a thing.
 
I walked on stilts, bounced around on a pogo stick, did cartwheels and back flips, loved the feeling of flying through the air. So I was pretty happy when I achieved that. Roller skated, ice skated, rode a bike, made and flew kites, climbed trees, swung from grapevines, went swimming...and so forth.
 
Me and a buddy of mine survived in the wilderness for a month

Or so the story goes
...the one I wrote for 4th grade English class

Twenty Miles from all Known Civilization

500 words of titillating adventures...for the author

Pulled a B

Oh, and losing my virginity, at the onset of puberty, to the lady next door
...but, that's another story
 
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