What Did You "Get Away" With- Right Under Your Parents' Noses????

I was also a good kid, but that didn't stop me from going with my friends to clubs. We didn't drink, but we loved going dancing and somehow "sneaking in" was way more fun than a "teen night"!

I was a pretty bad girl in high school. I smoked, did drugs, and fooled around a lot. I did a lot of things behind my parents' back. Now, I have two teenage daughters and a son who's catching up to them. I'm not in their business constantly, but I monitor their computer history and their texts.

No drugs, smoking, or drinking for me, but a lot of sex. Very safe, responsible sex, but sex nonetheless. It makes me laugh when I read posts about not allowing big group coed sleepovers when I think of the shenanigans I used to get up to in the middle of the day when my dad was right out front mowing the lawn!!
Then I think about how young I was and am just so so so grateful that I had great sex ed and knew how to avoid both STDs and pregnancy. And terrified to have teenagers in 10 years!!!

I was very similar. Honor roll. Great grades. Had a job.
But after hours, I would sneak out and party!!!!
I keep a close on my kids, and so far, they are far better behaved than I. Or they've got me snowed. LOL

I was also a "golden child" - good grades, played flute, sang in school and church choir, active in school and community theatre... I did a little drinking here and there but never any smoking (I cannot stand the smell - I couldn't ever smoke no matter how cool I thought it was).

The one thing I wonder about but still can't bring myself to ask my parents about is the weekend they were away my senior year. The high school musical was happening and I thought it would be fun to invite about 10 or so friends over after the show. Word got out and I think I ended up with about 50-60 people partying at my house. I was trying to play it "cool", but I was a nervous wreck the whole time. It was all I could do to keep people out of my parents' liquor cabinet, a few glasses were broken, plenty of other alcohol and plastic party cups were brought in, the place was a mess. I actually had to leave town super early the next morning to meet my parents at a college I was considering, so I couldn't stay to clean. My grandmother was going to be bringing my younger sister home that morning, so it was up to my friends to clean the whole house and leave it as it had been before she got there. They were done and carrying trash bags out right as my grandma pulled up, I think they said something about cleaning out the costume closet for the school's theatre... Anyway, my grandma didn't seem to suspect anything, my parents have never said a word about it, and I have never asked them... not sure that I ever will!!!

I was a good kiddo in HS.

However, I had a brother (older) seriously UNDER achieving...and dealing drugs. He almost cost my parents their marriage (differing opinions on how to deal with older brother's behaviors).

In college I went a bit wild...(my parents and younger bro were stationed in England at the time).

With respect to MY kiddos...I have been very lucky! I have tried to foster good communication...good morals...cause and effect scenarios...

BUT, I have to say that I feel the single most important thing that helped 'mold' them into the people they are was having a critically/chronically ill sister (against ALL odds she is now 16). She taught them patience, perseverance, kindness and tenacious will to live.

While not a journey I recommend, I truly credit Shannon with teaching these lessons...and having prevented MANY teenage nightmares. At one time I had 5 teens at home (and at the same time going through a BRUTAL divorce). In some 'blessed' way, Shannon was the anchor.

Shannon has been 'our gift'.

Sex. My grades were good. I didn't drink or do drugs. My friends were basically good kids, and I did not fall prey to peer pressure. I did not sneak out to parties; if my parents said I couldn't go, I didn't go. I had sex in my parents' house pretty regularly, just because I wanted to.

I would never have pulled things over on like that on my parents, that's just totally dishonest. Can't believe your admitting it actually!

I wasnt bad but I wasnt good. I did some really stupid stuff like car surfing on county roads. Driving up really dangerous roads to get to the bonfires that were going on just so i could go get drunk and smoke with my friends. Not sure how we ever made it down as I never recall naming someone as the DD or paying attention of they were staying sober. It was a small town so we always would go out to the country or the mountains so the local cops wouldnt tell our parents what we were up to. I would find myself in some college boys dorms or houses not knowing them, thank goodness nothing bad ever happened. I think I was my worst in HS because in college I just walked to the parties and really didnt like to drink as much as when I was in HS. But I pulled good grades and obided by most of my parents rules :)

Taking the car out before I had my license! I didn't go far but would pick up my best friend and drive around a bit. I can't believe I did that... I also drank and both my sister and I wonder if my parents didn't know or just pretended not to... But I was also a really "good" kid overall. So I tell myself not to panic if I find out my kids are up to something so long as they're getting really good grades, active in school, have friends who don't seem to be deliquent etc.

It makes me scared to think of all the things I did as a kid and got away with without my parents knowing. I makes me scared because someday my kids will be teenagers and I wonder if there are things they will do that they'll get away with.

No I was a consistent Honor Roll student. I got straight A's all 4 years. I would drink sometimes but never smoke or go to strip clubs. I still don't smoke or go to strip clubs and I am 28 with 2 children, and still married to my first husband. I don't believe in divorce but I will never have to go through that. And I am teaching them to never do any kind of bad behavior, like drinking under aged, smoking, ditching school, and going to strip clubs. But I did get into some mischief but that's not important to tell right now.

Lets see, I evacuated the house after hours through my window... or by just walking out the front door. I drank... But unfortunately she found out EVERY TIME my sister would bring me home... O and I rarely went to school. However I did pass.

I was a pretty good kid. I only got drunk once (and that was enough for me to never do it again) and I borrowed my cousins car and went out to lunch with my friend during school hours before I had my license.
I hated school more than anything. I ended up just doing independant study and graduating early.

Please go answer this lady's question from yesterday.

http://www.mamapedia.com/questions/12531607782996312065

It all looks funny till your kids do it to you.

Drinking..

She allowed me to be honest with her. She even offered (so did my friends parents) to purchase the beer if we wanted to drink.. But we had to drink it at thier houses or our friends houses. I even told her when I was going to be going to dicos..

My mom is amazing. I was controlled by always wanting to please her and help her. Now my sister.. Drugs, pot, got pregnant, would sneak out.

I was shocked to learn about my classmates that would sneak out at night.

Aaah, this post brings back so many wonderful high school memories. lol "self appointed field trips". I loved cutting classes in high school. I remember sneaking out with our foreign exchange student from Italy and we smoked menthols in the park near my house.

This wasn't my parents but our neighbors on another street I used to babysit for had a Jaguar - it was sooo beautiful - dark green, plush leather seats - and if they took the other car while I was babysitting, I would get in the Jag, turn it on and go up and down the driveway after the kids went to bed.

I never got "caught" but I'm sure they noticed the spedometer or the neighbors told on me because at some point all of a sudden they stopped asking me to babysit :(

I got away with everything!!!
My best friend would get so mad because she always got caught and I never did.

I got good grades and was a pretty good kid, but did smoke, drink occasionally but that was about it. I'm from a very small town and my parents house faces the high school so I couldn't cut easily. I did sneak out after hours.
My kids have been good so far (to my knowledge anyway lol). My daughter one time has been somewhere she wasn't supposed to be and got busted. She wouldn't have been in trouble if she'd told the truth. Guess I'll find out after they graduate what they really did ;)

I was a good kid. I think I drank beer once with boys my senior year of H.S. I was pretty good about following the rules. I never lied to my parents if they asked me a direct question and I really didn't have anything to lie about.

College...... another story.

I was considered a good kid. Valedictorian, 3 varsity sports, millions of clubs, volunteer work, honor society, etc. I have never done drugs. If I wanted to drink, I'd drink at home with my brother. My vice was always sex, though. That was going on all through high school. I'm sure my parents knew about some of it- maybe half of it - but we both would pretend the other side was ignorant. ;-)

I guess the biggest thing I got away with was going for a prom weekend at the beach with my boyfriend and his friends. I had my brother to cover for me.

lol-

I wrote up a fake permission slip that I was going to the Keys ( I live in Florida) for a 3 day science field trip for Science class....
What I ACTUALLY did- used the $ for my 3 day science trip and bought a plane ticket with my best friend and flew to Chicago to see my ex boyfriend....lol
We had my mom drop us off at the school way before it opened because we said we were taking buses early... My friend met us on the opposite side of the school and drove us to the airport....

YEP, I got busted about a month later! My ex wrote me a letter and my mom opened it and read it... I think I was grounded for a month, lol.... I was a senior in HS...

MEMORIESSSS

Boys. Booze. Busted. Better.

I stopped drinking long enough to barely Graduate:(

My whole High School time, my dad was living and working in California. My mom was in Washington with us and her in home daycare. My dad was in Hermosa Cali. sending the bread home. I took full advantage of this. I was absolutely awful to my mom while my dad was away. I wish I could take it all back.

I still apologize to this day.

I was so bad for a few reasons. 1. I had danced(ballet) my whole life. My Senior year I opted to take the year off because of an ankle injury. This opened the door to a social life. And wow, did I go crazy with all the free time I now had(I danced 7 days a week, ten weeks out of the year and 6 the rest.......Mon-Friday 4-9pm S/S 9-6...yikes).

I know what I am doing differently when my kids get to that age.....that is for sure!

I lived in a another country from my parents, I couldn't be too "wild" or else I would be expelled from school and deported back to the US to live with...someone. I did a little "stretching" through a bit of drinking, nothing major, maybe a "solo" cup's worth in a whole evening, no more. Some smoking, no drugs. A little experimenting with guys and girls, never anything serious.

But so long as I never crossed the line, I peeked over it a few times though, all in all I was good.