Seeing your Parents when they were young

[dejr_8]

This weekend I went home to help clean out my mom's house because she moved into an assisted living facility.

My sisters and I spent a lot of time looking at her (and my dad's) pictures from when they were young. They had some crazy pictures. It's funny that when we are young we all do the same wild things.

Don't you wish you could have seen your parents when they young? (much like Back to the Future!)

 

[Stacerita]

This weekend I went home to help clean out my mom's house because she moved into an assisted living facility.

My sisters and I spent a lot of time looking at her (and my dad's) pictures from when they were young. They had some crazy pictures. It's funny that when we are young we all do the same wild things.

Don't you wish you could have seen your parents when they young? (much like Back to the Future!)

Ive seen pics...no need to go back to and see them in person. My mom wearing hot pants and go go boots? or my dad with his long hair looking like Jesus Christ?.......no thank you.

 

[Tink415]

That would be neat. I love seeing pictures of my parents when they were little kids. When my youngest was little she took my hand one day and walked me to our wedding picture and asked who are those people mom?

 

[kaffinito]

That would have been nice to see them when they were young.

One of my favorite pics of them was when they were in their early 20's, and they were wearing work clothes standing in front of the house they were building in London (Ontario). They were both grinning and they looked so young and so happy.

 

[Chipperdini]

We've been cleaning up and transferring my parents' old slides to DVD. It's been decades since I've seen any of them, and I only recall seeing a portion of them before. It's interesting.

 

[akcire]

I have a picture of my very proper (now deceased) grandmother laying across a picnic type table with a toilet seat around her neck. She is wearing matching hat, gloves, and shoes with super dark sunglasses and a dress.

I have no idea what was happening that day, but anytime I have a crappy day I pull out that photo it makes me laugh.

 

[Planogirl]

I picked up my son and a friend of his from a concert tonight and they started teasing me about the dorky bands I must have seen when I was a teen. Little do they know...

I thought that way about my parents too though. As I got older I started to realize that styles were different of course but their teen years really weren't all that much different.

 

[bdoyledimou]

Although i am a respectable business executive today, my kids (10 and 12 years old) know that when i was a teenager, i had a 14 inch fire engine red mohawk, and more metal in my head than brains.

I remind them of this fact whenever they try to get away with things .. i remind them that *I* was a bad horrible kid, and i worte the book on rules breaking, and there is nothing they can do that i don't already know about.

It works (and thier friends think it's cool when they see the pics of me from back then).

 

[bumbershoot]

I remind them of this fact whenever they try to get away with things .. i remind them that *I* was a bad horrible kid, and i worte the book on rules breaking, and there is nothing they can do that i don't already know about.

It works (and thier friends think it's cool when they see the pics of me from back then).

I've always known about my mom and dad's pasts. So I've never had a problem with thinking of them as having been my age, whatever my age was, at all. Heck my mom held on to many of her old clothes...but I could never fit into anything b/c I wasn't a broke-as-heck, barely-eating, hippie, which was ANNOYING. But it was cool!

I have always seen, and now I "own", my mom's crazy pictures of her and her friends as teens...smoking cigarettes, being just goofy as anything...she was far sillier than I ever was.


And bdoyledimou, knowing my mom had been up to far worse than I could imagine certainly did work on me! Never smoked a cigarette, didn't marry at 17 (hers was most definitely ill-fated, though I know a fraction of young marriages do work out), waited until 21 to do all sorts of things she was doing far younger... The one rebellious thing I did that she didn't was get a tattoo...but I really shouldn't have, as it's a REALLY stupid tattoo.