DnvrFox

50+'rs Embarrassing Parent Moments From When You Were A Kid

* When my mom sent me to summer school with my accordion to play in the band! Of course, school bands don't have accordions - and that was after 4 years of lessons!

* My sister-in-law dutifully taught all her kids how to swim the side-stroke and then sent all of the kids to the swim team, knowing perfectly well how to do the side- stroke, but nothing else! Of course, side-stroke isn't one of the strokes for a swim team.

Anything like that happen to any of you?

The Weak Link

When I was in High school I had to hop a school bus carrying a cello.

farandaway

My mom sewed all my clothes (badly), bless her dear heart.

DnvrFox

When my son stayed out later then he was supposed to, and we had telephoned around a bit, she finally got his buddy on the phone. In her anger and fear, she asked him loudly, "Where the H*** have you been!."

All the buddies were quite respectful of Mrs. Fox after that.

Big Paulie

Unfortunately, my embarrassing moments as kid usually involved copious amounts of alcohol consumed by my father. Not even remotely cute or funny, and not the kind of memories I like to dredge up.

jppe

Mom and Dad were both school teachers. Mom always seem to wind up at the same elementary school I attended. When I misbehaved they never sent me to the Principals office.....probably wish they had. I always had to go to Mom's room and it was never a pretty ending.

solveg

In second grade, my mom dressed me up as a werewolf. She made a big vest out of fur, and then put raw bacon on my head....

**********?!!!!!!**********? I can't believe it, just saying it.

The bacon got warm and dripped down my head all day.

Beverly

My parents were pretty cool and I can't remember them ever embarrassing me. I wish I could say the same for my kids

My four year old son was in the grocery checkout line with me one day and let a fart that could be heard by everyone within 20 feet of him. He turned to the two elderly ladies in line behind us and very seriously announced "My mommy did it". It was several minutes before the clerk could resume checking out my groceries and the ladies had tears rolling down their cheeks from laughing.

Foldable Two

I not only rode the bus to H.S. with my cello, I played left field on the Varsity Baseball team. (a 2,000 student So. CA H.S.).

The bummer was that when there was a schedule conflict, the Orchestra won out over the baseball team, per the school administrators!!! I missed out on a no-hitter against a local rival because of that.

BSLeVan

I grew up in a household where we had little money and at times went without heat and little to eat. Never saw my mother or father spend money on anything while I was growing up that wasn't "for the family". At the same time I saw my father work three and four jobs to try and make ends meet. My mother at the age of 23 was trying to raise four kids while my father was working all those jobs. There wasn't much my parents could do to embarrass me. They earned my respect quite early in my young life. That's not to say that there weren't those kids in school who made fun of my hand-me-down clothes (often I was the third or fourth to wear them), but I pretty much saw those kids as not having a clue about what sacrifice for others meant.

cranky old dude

When I was in Cub Scouts, my mother considered every Halloween Costume
contest as a personal challenge for her to show-up all the other parents using
me as her canvas so to speak. I was not allowed any voice in the costume
decision or construction at all. I was a woman twice and a headless horseman
complete with a wood framed horse/rope harness contraption carrying a
pumpkin head once. Won the first place Silver Dollar each of the three years,
and hated every minute of the ordeals. I would have been happier trying on my
own and being last place...I still hate Halloween. I also detest domineering women.

Those years were the beginning of the end for me and that family,though I didn't
realize it at the time. Luckily I found a wife who knows when to give me space and
time on my bike, doesn't nag me about stuff that she really has every right to nag me
about, and she definately won't be dressing me up and prancing me around the hall
in front of all my freinds.

Digital Gee

Your post begs for pics! <ducking>

solveg

My dad once painted our house in a jock strap because he didn't see the point of getting his clothes full of paint. Granted, we had a lake on one side and summer cabins with no people on each side, but the front of the house was a main road... don't remember if he dressed differently for that side of the house.

I also don't think I had a single boyfriend come to pick me up who didn't get to greet my dad in his boxer shorts.

The man didn't like clothes.

cranky old dude

Kids and farts. We should start a new thread....

Thanksgiving Dinner at the In-laws...big dinning-room table....my daughter is
about 15 months old and still in diapers. While seated in her high-chair at the
table about midway through the meal, in mid-sentence (babble) she leans over onto
one cheek and lets one rip. For some reason everyone looked over at me!!!
Proud to say I didn't break out laughing until we left, and I still am laughing
20+ years later.

Thread hi-jack is now over.

ollo_ollo

It was 1946: I was with dad at a bank and they wanted a 2nd piece of I.D. to cash a check. Dad took out his U.S. Army issue denture which was engraved with his name & rank. Banker said "That's good enough for me!" & gave him his money.

Red Baron

I was the oldest so i got the new clothes, until I got close to my dad's size. I remember my mom saying I should be proud to wear dad's bib Overall's to High School.

stapfam

Coronation Day in the UK in 53 and I was 6. Fancy dress in the street party in London and I was sworn to secrecy as to what I was going as--- Robin Hood. Mum and dad took months making the costume and I had a proper Bow and arrows and a suit all in green- just like Robin Hood- Right Down to the Green Tights. A 6 year old boy wearing a pair of Girls Green tights. Was I self Conscious.

And I don't have any Pics-But funny how 54 years later and I am still wearing tights. In the Bib form though. Won the Fancy dress though.