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“fun childhood experiences” that your kids are unlikely to experience because you don't like them

  1. mrsjyw

    GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts

    Out of the things previously mentioned throughout this thread, the only places that really bother me are Sea World, circuses w animals, and football!

    Everything else Ds has already done or we plan on doing in the future! As said previously, I am hesitant on sleepovers but well cross that bridge when we get there! I'm mostly a try everything once person!

  2. looch

    wonderful pear / 26210 posts

    I'll go camping if someone sets it up for me...like I can just hike up and my camp is set...at least for the first time.

    I am not sure I will be able to sleep though, I have an irrational fear of being attacked by bears.

  3. tysonja

    nectarine / 2217 posts

    pets! I can see us caving at some point, but I prefer not to get one :). we have plenty of friends and fam with pets they can love on!

  4. lawbee11

    GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts

    What's the reasoning behind no sleepovers? I've seen it mentioned by a handful of people in this thread.

  5. MoonMoon

    pomegranate / 3392 posts

    @lawbee11: I've been trying to think of this too! All I can think is the fear of the parents being crazy gun owners, lol?

  6. Andrea

    GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts

    @lawbee11: @MoonMoon: maybe sleepover molestation? I was never allowed attend sleepovers for this reason.

    I would be concerned about gun ownership, too!

  7. Mama Bird

    pomegranate / 3127 posts

    Circuses, and cartoons every weekend. The ones I see my nephews watch make my eyes and brain hurt

  8. Madison43

    persimmon / 1483 posts

    Definitely the circus. Never. I also loathe camping but if my kids wanted to, I would suck it up and try.

    @Andrea: @lawbee11: I had friends growing up that weren't allowed to go to sleepovers and we all thought their parents were so crazy strict, then an acquintance in high school was raped at a sleepover by a visiting uncle, so now I'm really not sure how I feel... You just never know.

  9. Mamasig

    pomegranate / 3565 posts

    @MoonMoon: @lawbee11: My parents were immigrants, and in Central America sleepovers must not be common. So I couldn't sleep out anywhere. My parents said I had my own room and bed, why do I need to sleep out? I used to hate it. But now as a mom, I get it a bit more. I'm not super excited at the thought of my boys sleeping out. We'll see when the time comes. I would definitely have to know the parents well. There are just too many bad people out there in the world!

  10. Mamasig

    pomegranate / 3565 posts

    I would completely do most of the things mentioned on this thread. Even if I don't enjoy it, I would try it for my kids.

  11. mrsjyw

    GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts

    @lawbee11: cultural and safety! Depends on the friend / my relationship w their parents though!

  12. FaithFertility

    eggplant / 11861 posts

    @Miss Ariel: same with my DH and camping... lo.
    Umm.... probably tree climbing... lol I would climb sol high it isn't even funny.....

  13. Miss Ariel

    nectarine / 2210 posts

    @FaithFertility: Seriously, what's up with that?!?!? Aren't boys supposed to like camping?

  14. Reese

    pomegranate / 3521 posts

    I love camping and amusement rides but I will reevaluate any future pets and water parks kind of creep me out. *shudder* floating bandaids *shudder*

  15. irene

    nectarine / 2964 posts

    DH is very opposed to circus performances, I am on the fence but I am toward opposing it, so we are basically forbidding it completely. We are also not crazy about the children's museum we have in our town so we do not like taking him there. It is actually a lot of fun for him, but I personally disliked the way the museum is run. The admissions is very expensive. Parking is offsite and isn't organized better, and it could be easily an additional $10-15 even if you were a member to the museum. They don't have restaurants on site and there is no nice restaurants around, so it became such a chore to try to rip them off of the museum to go to eat, when there is nothing good around. Just the entire experience is fun for the kid but very miserable for the adult. Camping too. I guess it's because both of us grew up in a city where we just didn't have that culture of camping, and/ or parents didn't take us camping, so we don't quite know what to do with it hahahaha.

  16. Orchid

    clementine / 927 posts

    No spending weeks away during the summer at family in the country! We live in the country and the only family I'd let have LO is my mom (and then he'd come back a total spoiled brat).

    No sleepovers either!

  17. Chillybear

    pomegranate / 3032 posts

    I racked my brain all weekend trying to come up with something I'm vehemently opposed to letting my kid do... I finally figured it out.... Traveling Carnivals! Weird shady people, Rides that could fall apart at any moment, gross food, expensive games that yield cheap prizes..... Yet I have no issue with the ride piers on the boardwalks at the shore.

  18. Mrs. Lemon-Lime

    wonderful pea / 17279 posts

    Pets- uh no way I'm getting stuck caring for another living thing like my parents did with *my* dog.
    Animated movies- their father can take them.
    Beach- I'll lose this one and probably break it myself, but I remember what a mess sand everywhere can be plus tangled hair.

  19. MamaBehr

    pomegranate / 3275 posts

    We can't have cats (DH is really allergic), but anything and everything I *won't* do I've learned, I have to keep an open mind. And, just because I don't like something doesn't mean I'm going to deny my kids it, assuming they like it or want it.

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