S/O - what were your wild child/dumb choices growing up?

i had a similar upbringing to yours- good grades, church-going family, stable family for the most part. in high school senior year i started to break out on my own a little.. a friend and i would skip 6th hour to go mudrunning in the woods with the redneck boys, and usually had a bottle of bacardi and squirt. that was mostly for looks, we never drank enough to get buzzed cuz we didn't like the taste, but at that age you take what you can get. in college i partied some, took illegal substances a couple times but i was supporting myself and working thru college and knew if i got into that scene i would be throwing everything away so it never went further. had a kinda promiscuous summer between long term relationships, i was in the phase where you think you have to sleep with guys to get them to like you. stupid girl. (atrb_partsz)

not that any of that is rare or so scandalizing, but if my parents had found out oh man would i have been in trouble.

Nothing. You don't upset a bi-polar parent. He called the troopers the one and only time I sat out at a neighbor's house , with a group of kids ,during the summer and it was 8:30 pm. Oh yeah I was one popular person that summer. NOT.

Ha Ha Ha! With all the spreadsheet keeping in this place, I'd be a damn fool to spill. Let's just say there'd be a LOT of pearl clutching.

No kidding. Although I don't mind sharing, it isn't like I was doing it alone. LOL

But to those who know me now but not then? There is a lot of shock and awe. I have a friend from those days who also grew up to be a real girl and just recently she called me to tell me that she had found a pipe/baggie of weed in her daughter's purse-and the daughter promptly told her that she was "holding it for someone else." We couldn't decide if we were going to laugh at how nothing ever changes or cry because surely not OUR kids.

nothing - I was a good student, banned from dating, had a strict curfew that meant I pretty much wasn't out after dark unless I was at Girl Scouts or work, no drugs, no smoking, no drinking (I was the kid that was drunk 3x before I was potty trained so by my teens it was old news)...I didn't even drive. I was too afraid of being beaten more if I didn't toe the line...so I didn't even think about rebelling...

So I went away for college and my Dad died when I was 19 and mum stopped caring about what we did...then I rebelled....my grades dropped, I was pregnant at 20, a mum shortly after I turned 21 and then I had to figure out what way was up because I had a child to worry about.

Same here, but not for lack of trying. I asked one of our local police officers in our small town why I wasn't getting in trouble or questioned when all my friends were. His response is we don't need to question you. We know everything you do. Apparently, they just didn't care. 

  That about sums it up for me too.  But, the police didn't arrest kids much at that time.  They usually just took them home.    

I had more than one ride home    Luckily my parents' room was at the back of the house and they were heavy sleepers.  

Well, considering my parents let me stay at home for a week by myself when I was only 14......

My dad was a long-haul truck driver and only home about 1-2 days a week. My mom was a very heavy sleeper. I could sneak in & out of the house during the night and she would never know.

My BFF & I used to sneak drinks. Pop was allowed in school so we'd pour our parent's vodka into a sprite can and carry the can around with us during school hours (not straight vodka, but a shot or 2 to mix with Sprite).

Pam (eta oooooh, I'm now a THROBBING MEMBER)

Same here.

I made straight As and had a plan for my life. I didn't want anything to mess that up. I really don't feel like I missed out on much by not partying or drinking.

I was raised with lots of rules, high expectations and a strong moral code, in a church-going family, was a straight A honors student, and never got in any trouble (mostly because neither my parents nor teachers ever suspected I would be doing anything naughty since I was such a good student). But I did PLENTY of things that would still now, almost 20+ years later, make me mom flip her lid.

Heck, I look back at some of the things I did and thank my lucky stars I'm still alive and have never been arrested!

It wasn't any failing on my parents' part. I just made some really stupid choices and happened to be lucky enough that I came around to making reasonable choices before anything affected my life permanently. I was smart enough to know better, but after always being a "good girl", I felt like I had something to prove (mostly to myself). It was dumb, but the late teens and early 20s can be monumentally dumb.

I got it all out of my system from my senior year in high school through my junior year in college. My grades never suffered and I've lived the life of a totally responsible, level-headed adult since then.

Don't blame yourself and don't think all is lost.

Sex, drugs, rock and roll.

I work in a church school now.

Well, I was a really "good girl" in high school ... I had a boyfriend but did nothing crazy ...

In my early 20's I let a lot of guys walk all over me because I had a low self-esteem ... rode on the back of a motorcycle at a crazy speed without a helmet with a guy who had been drinking ... luckily, I've lived to tell the tale and I'm terrified of motorcycles to this day