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

[Roobarb]

You've brought a tear to my eye Viktoria and of course you're so right. 

Still don't like cabbage though. 

[Iria]

My Dads Fried Cheese and Onion     .. and getting nothing else to eat if I didn't like it
Living in a flat that was full of damp and the 4 of us had to share 1 bed room ( and that was in the 1970s )
Being Bullied in Infants and Junior school ..
a Over Powering  mum ( nothing more to be said )

But most of my childhood was Good .. and look back at the Good times more

[Viktoria]

  Still don't like cabbage though.  I like rhubarb,especially with ginger. It doesn`t matter which way you spell it either! Viktoria.
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[Graham47]

Seems to me Vicktoria that one of the biggest factors today is how we determine the difference between 'wants' and 'needs'.

Kids (and I include my own here) grumble about not being able to manage at times yet have iphones, subscription TV and a couple of fairly new cars. I was no stranger to impulse buying either - usually of the shiny four wheel variety with those added extras but really, they were the wants of this life and not the needs. Now of course I'm retired but even so we'll buy something we don't really need like a tin of paint to brighten up a room.... or a packet of bacon for that now rare bacon butty luxury and oh, the occasional bottle of plonk. Not "needed" I know but, Meh!

How things change eh, but even when I was a kid Mum would be virtually skint yet would still send me up the road with her last 1/6d to go buy her half ounce of Golden Virginia - and then just give us dollops of 'Birds Instant Whip' for our tea!  Remember that stuff?   

[bearsome]

I don't remember at all being short of food when I was a child but, from what Mum told me (she's 82 now), we were in the 50s, and she often went without. As a result, she has quite brittle bones and, sadly, her skin reacts badly to calcium tablets.  I suspect many more mothers were ina similar situation

As for kids getting everything they ask for, our two daughters (now in their 30s) were never brand conscious, which some were then, and many more seem to be nowadays. Our younger daughter despairs of little girls being dressed up as little adults, and being given everything they ask for, except attention from, and play with, their parents. She was working at a wedding reception in an hotel, where there was one mother getting very drunk via a hip flask in her handbag, while her two young children were playing on the stairs, getting in the way of staff. The younger one, just 4 years old, eventually fell and broke her arm, and her mother tried to sue the hotel!  Very sad.

[Barbara348]

Having to eat Sheep's Head' soup.

Ugh, makes me squirm thinking about it but we were a large family and needs must.

Barbara.

[Viktoria]

 Oooo! I`ve just remembered another two, Bronco toilet paper and a similar product San Izal.
 They were only fit for impromptu concerts in the outside lavvy using said paper and a comb.
At a push they could also be used as makeshift tracing paper--- not in the lavvy though.

 Mind you I suppose we were lucky (or unlucky,depends how you look at it)  not to have newspaper,-- I mean you could at least have a read, only problem of course  would be finding the rest of the article you were engrossed in. ( You see, we did have newspaper sometimes)
 By gum, we`ve lived!

 Yes Graham, Dad always had his cigs although not much else. We did not begrudge him. It was taken as read that they were necessities.
                                                    Viktoria.

[derekwg]

 Having to sit on the outside loo,especially when there was a full moon..............cough.

[Treetotal]

Having to use the outside loo on a cold winter night and watching out for the spiders 
Carol

Yes me too....and I'm still scared of spiders.....but we all survived didn't we...hence the saying "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"

Carol