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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 28, 2015 16:41:57 GMT
.... if they knew exactly what you & your friends had said?
I am SOOOOOO glad that there was no texting when I was a teen. My poor parents would have had a coronary.
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Post by scrapsotime on May 28, 2015 16:49:48 GMT
Absolutely and I hid my senior yearbook for years because of some of the stuff that was written in there.
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Post by valincal on May 28, 2015 16:50:10 GMT
Well there was no texting back then but we passed plenty of notes in class! As well, I was living in Germany during my teens so I had lots of correspondence with my cousins and friends in Canada. I held on to all of these letters and notes and I know my mom snooped and read them but she'd never admit it.  |
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Post by scrapmaven on May 28, 2015 16:50:50 GMT
I was a very boring teenager. They would have fallen asleep from boredom.
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Post by scrapmaven on May 28, 2015 16:51:00 GMT
I was a very boring teenager. They would have fallen asleep from boredom.
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Post by melanell on May 28, 2015 16:51:07 GMT
yes.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 16:51:30 GMT
Thank god I graduated before cell phones and texting became commonplace. I probably would've been locked up if my parents read any of my texts.
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Post by Meri-Lyn on May 28, 2015 16:52:44 GMT
Absolutely!!!!
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Post by rickmer on May 28, 2015 16:55:49 GMT
I found notes my bff and I wrote to each other. if we liked a boy, we described him as "perfect foxtrot height". we were not referring to dancing. and I was not "foxtrotting" with anyone at that age, but liked to talk like I was I guess!!! |
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Post by lesley on May 28, 2015 16:56:22 GMT
Yes, my parents would have been horrified if they had known what I was up to when I was 16/17.
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Post by likescarrots on May 28, 2015 17:04:42 GMT
Well there was no texting back then but we passed plenty of notes in class! As well, I was living in Germany during my teens so I had lots of correspondence with my cousins and friends in Canada. I held on to all of these letters and notes and I know my mom snooped and read them but she'd never admit it. this is exactly what i was thinking with all this stiff being discussed. We definitely wrote notes. They were not always innocent. We shared "private" notes with our bffs. Our parents may or may not have snooped. Really not so different from what kids are doing these days. |
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Post by compeateropeator on May 28, 2015 17:22:32 GMT
Yup! And I also kept my yearbook squirreled away.  While I think back with fond memories, I am happy that we all made it through those years with little to no tragedy or repercussions. I am still friends with many from my highschool clique and when we get together we still reminisce and laugh about it all. But we all do agree that we were lucky, and I can't even imagine if it was immortalized on the Internet at the time (and forever). And it had nothing to to do with bad parental skills as I had great parents. I think my mom would have been more "shocked" than my father. |
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Post by scrapaddie on May 28, 2015 17:26:47 GMT
My parents would've been very concerned because I was very boring.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 17:29:56 GMT
I was a very boring teenager. They would have fallen asleep from boredom. That. |
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Post by chlerbie on May 28, 2015 19:07:35 GMT
Well there was no texting back then but we passed plenty of notes in class! As well, I was living in Germany during my teens so I had lots of correspondence with my cousins and friends in Canada. I held on to all of these letters and notes and I know my mom snooped and read them but she'd never admit it. this is exactly what i was thinking with all this stiff being discussed. We definitely wrote notes. They were not always innocent. We shared "private" notes with our bffs. Our parents may or may not have snooped. Really not so different from what kids are doing these days. Haha--love that typo!! And yes, my mother would have been appalled. She DID find/read some of my notes and was a major snooper. I learned to get rid of "the evidence." And for me, it really was all talk. But I talked a big game!  |
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Post by padresfan619 on May 28, 2015 19:16:59 GMT
While I was no angel, I have been shocked plenty of times by stories from my parent's youth. They certainly had a life of their own before marriage and parenthood.
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Post by coaliesquirrel on May 28, 2015 19:40:43 GMT
Nope, I was a very good, innocent, compliant kid in high school. They always assumed the worst, so they'd have been surprised to find out the actually WERE wrong, I guess.
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Post by mzza111 on May 28, 2015 19:46:12 GMT
I doubt it. My parents were not and are still not naive or dumb.
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Post by anxiousmom on May 28, 2015 19:50:30 GMT
I doubt it. My parents were not and are still not naive or dumb. Same here.  |
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Post by freecharlie on May 28, 2015 19:50:42 GMT
Yes. The crap I did and said starting at about 12...omg my parents would have shit.
My mom found my journal once and read it. Omg...that was horrible.
That siad, I try to impress on my kids and students that anything they put out there on the i terent or through text could bite them in the ass and could go viral.
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Post by freecharlie on May 28, 2015 19:53:10 GMT
Oh and my almost 14 year old has nothing on me as a teen.
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Post by jenb72 on May 28, 2015 20:57:00 GMT
Um, yeah... the notes we passed in class were bad enough. I can only imagine the trouble we'd have gotten into if we'd had texting.
Jen
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Post by papersilly on May 28, 2015 21:20:41 GMT
i don't think i would have ever texted any i wasn't prepared to get busted by my parents for. there was no privacy in our house so my phone would have been free game assuming i would have even gotten a phone. i, too, am glad there was no texting when i was growing up. the personal computers were barely becoming household items and the internet had not been born yet. if course they was the occasional note passed between friends that i didn't discard properly before getting home. LOL
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Post by Dalai Mama on May 28, 2015 21:21:07 GMT
There is absolutely nothing that I could have said or done that would have shocked my mother. She was the original wild child.
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Post by leannec on May 28, 2015 21:32:15 GMT
I was a very boring teenager. They would have fallen asleep from boredom. My notes that I passed were pretty tame ... phone calls too ... I would think that my texts would be pretty dull if I was a teen now  Of course, my parents didn't know what I was up to with my boyfriend because I didn't share that info with anyone  |
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Post by caro on May 28, 2015 21:48:04 GMT
Oh the notes we passed! My mom did snoop and I caught her. Hahaha. I hid them after that.
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Post by cmpeter on May 28, 2015 22:41:46 GMT
No, my mom was the wild one. I rebelled by being the opposite.
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Post by maryland on May 28, 2015 23:58:34 GMT
I found notes my bff and I wrote to each other. if we liked a boy, we described him as "perfect foxtrot height". we were not referring to dancing. and I was not "foxtrotting" with anyone at that age, but liked to talk like I was I guess!!! My best friend and I and my boyfriend and I had code words too! My boyfriends mom was very strict, so that was the main reason we had code words. |
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Post by maryland on May 29, 2015 0:11:40 GMT
My parents would've been very concerned because I was very boring. That's how my husband and I are!  We encourage our daughters to go out more and spend time with friends. Right now my 17 yr. old has her "boyfriend" over and she, he and her sisters (12 and 15) are laughing and having so much fun playing basketball and hanging out together. We love when they have him and their other friends over. We love this age group of kids! |
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Post by tincin on May 29, 2015 1:11:58 GMT
Probably not, I was #7 out of 9, very little shocked my parents by the time I was a teenager. My Mother was pretty much a realist and knew her children were neither perfect nor innocent.
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While I think back with fond memories, I am happy that we all made it through those years with little to no tragedy or repercussions. I am still friends with many from my highschool clique and when we get together we still reminisce and laugh about it all. But we all do agree that we were lucky, and I can't even imagine if it was immortalized on the Internet at the time (and forever). 
We encourage our daughters to go out more and spend time with friends. Right now my 17 yr. old has her "boyfriend" over and she, he and her sisters (12 and 15) are laughing and having so much fun playing basketball and hanging out together. We love when they have him and their other friends over. We love this age group of kids!