What where the worst things you had to endure as a child?

[keyboard86]

My Mum used to eat tripe soaked in vinegar

Ghastly, swear that is one of the reasons I turned vegetarian many years ago, still miss Bread and dripping though!!
Keyboard86

[SwissGill]

My Mum used to eat tripe soaked in vinegar

Ghastly, swear that is one of the reasons I turned vegetarian many years ago, still miss Bread and dripping though!!
Keyboard86

Ah! Mum never gave us this but my Aunt with whom I stayed with on and off used to give me this and sprinkle it with salt.

If I could just have a slice of bread and dripping, I'd swoon.l

[SwissGill]

I think my brother's worst memories were telling my Mum that all the boys had long trousers. OK, Mum acquiesced but come the school photograph - guess how many were wearing long trousers'

[SwissGill]

Did anyone have to eat powdered egg?

I was born 1942 and loved it so much that I was very wary of real eggs.

[Viktoria]

being bullied a lot at primary school and never telling my parents as i didnt know how to............

 I remembr sticking up for a little boy about my age (5)whose mother had died and I could not imagine anyone wanting to bully anyone at all but when their mum had just died----so I defended him against two big boys of 12 or so. Of course they transferred their attention to me .Hitting my legs with nettles and thorny brambles cut from the hedge. I remember crying all the way home.      I was evacuated and so not with my parents. The people I lived with were nice kind people and tried to get the school staff to do something but sadly all evacuees were considered by the said staff to be slum children and troublesome.
Nothing was done.
 Since when I have hated bullying , never mind if it is I who am the victim or not. Children have only one childhood and no-one should blight it in any way. I always got myself in trouble by championing the victim and I hated seeing children becoming sad and withdrawn. It really worried me as a child and it  was and  is beyond my comprehension how someone could do that to another.
As a previous rootsChatter said, I hope you were happier at your next school. Viktoria.

[Shirleyjjj]

yes i went to a grammar school where everyone was nice and the bullies went to other schools -
 
i was clever and gradually gained the confidence - surprisingly enough i am now seeing the same thing happening to my daughter and although she has been able to tell me about it - unfortunalty the bullies are still bullying but the schools are a liitte slightly  better at handing things

- still does anyone recall the books - janet and john reading books and little black sambo and cat in the hat ect?

[Viktoria]

Glad to hear that andreajjj.
 Yes the Janet and John books were still in use at one school where I worked in Reception class then they were replaced by some lovely ones, more up to date . The characters were Ben the dog, Meg the hen, Deb the rat , Jip the cat and Fat pig.
 They were were so funny. Ben washing up with boots on back to front -hilarious and rather like Giles cartoons the small details made the children laugh.
I hated going to the "privy" ie the toilet right at the end of the garden on dark winter nights without a light---- the spiders there could have pulled a brewery cart! but blackout conditions meant we could not have a light as we were on a flight path near a big airfield. I was so afraid it is a wonder I got there in time!       Viktoria.

[a-l]

I would like to join your thread SwissGill unfortunately my childhood was horrific and not suitable reading for here. Good thread and will continue to read.                sue

[jacqlineue]

Malt and Cod Liver Oil.  Still makes me feel sick just thinking about it.