"Poll question: Did your parents send you away for the summer?"
I'm not talking about a couple weeks at camp or whatever. Did your parents send you to spend the summer with a relative in the country, down south, in your homeland?
it wasn't so much being sent away, but being left in the care of my grandparents in their home country for a month while they went on business trips. Those were some fun times though, spent most of it with my cousins and having fun. I must have been around 5 years old but I do remember missing my mom and dad a lot by the end of the month. Then they'd return and we'd spend another fun month with family or go away to another country for a bit before coming home at the end of summer break.
Not sure if that counts as being sent away. I didn't travel (by plane) on my own until I started going to research conferences during college.
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6. "went to my great grandmas in Lakeview, SC. " In response to Reply # 0
she didn't go to the IGA for nothing except Breyer's ice cream. Everything else she had on her farm. She made your ass work too while you were down there.
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blkprinceMD05 Member since Nov 29th 2004 41323 posts
Thu May-21-15 10:04 AM
9. "green! to grandma's house in rural VA. all the dc area cousins" In response to Reply # 0
were rounded up, grandma had a pool and free time, our first cousins from miami and 2nd cousins from south jersey would come too
it was great, lifelong memories. we used to sleep out on the screen enclosed porch on cots lol
it never dawned on me until i was an adult that it was a practical way to have childcare for working parents and that always was a chance for a breather from being a mom and a chance to just be an adult
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13. "Kinda...but not really. We'd spend a few weeks out in Gibsonville, NC" In response to Reply # 0
... It was kinda country...but really just on the outskirts of Greensboro so that we were still "touchable" if grandma reported back that we were actin fool....
It was cool....and my parents are hoping we do the same with our daughter by sending her down to NC for a few weeks....but I don't see it happening anytime soon....they been trying to talk it up ever since she was born! I don't see it happening at LEAST until she's maybe 6 or 7 years old.... The world is different now. They're parenting mentalities are vastly different than ours, and frankly I just don't have a ton of confidence in their decision making skills when it comes to toddlers right now.
I feel kinda bad about it....but at the same time...it don't take but a summer to fck a kid up for life!
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21. "I was a child. I didn't attend raves." In response to Reply # 20
I had more fun in STL bc I had several cousins to play with. I was a teen by the time I was sent to the Bay for summer breaks - I usually worked some part time job.
I started going to raves when I was 18. Kids don't belong @ raves anyway - there were kids at the last rave I attended and I was so severely annoyed that I stopped going to them altogether.
19. "Until high school, I spent all my summers down in Alabama." In response to Reply # 0
Cultivating my country accent, learning how to fish, and all other sorts of country ass'd shit. And having my cousins teach me about football. And eating up all my grandmama's cooking and food from her farm. And learning how to cook. Those were really good times. Even when my bad ass'd cousins would get me in trouble. lol
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My parents were divorced. So, depending on who I was living with during the year, I'd spend the summer with the other. My mom was in TX and my pops was in Brooklyn until he got remarried. Then, he bounced around b/c his wife was a drill sergeant. So, I was all over the country growing up.
32. "not for the whole summer, no." In response to Reply # 0
but a few times i was 'sent' to my cousin's house in lefrak to chill for like a week at a time. it was great for me because we got so much freedom and i was the older one of the crew so i kept my lil cousin out of trouble but we would still have mad fun.
legsdiamond Member since May 05th 2011 79605 posts
Thu May-21-15 11:33 AM
34. "it wasn't for the summer but usually 2 weeks or so..." In response to Reply # 0
and our cousins did the same.
Hell, we still do.
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39. "I'd take flights from LAX to Raleigh, solo-dolo." In response to Reply # 0
Starting at 3 years old. Either my dad or aunt would be there to take me the rest of the way to my grandma's house in New Bern, NC. I went there every summer until one summer I went to Rochester, NY. I went to NC one more summer, but my cousins were all grown and trying to get jobs.
MrThomas43423 Member since Jul 03rd 2002 67613 posts
Thu May-21-15 11:59 AM
40. "my 1st cousin and i are born on the exact same day. so we're close..." In response to Reply # 0
couple that with his parent, my uncle and aunt, being educators and having the summer off, and yeah....i was up there for at least a month every summer. which was fine by me. they had Nintendos, HBO, and Captain Crunch. --------------------------------------- it's true what they say...people are strange, when you're strangers.
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