where did your parents go when they needed a rest from you growing up?

[Spinneret]

my father went in to the computer room

 

[tvguy]

I wasn't an angel, but my personality is such that as a kid and never wanted my parents mad at me. I don't recall them ever having to get away from me. Might come from being an only child too. No siblings to fight with.

 

[Rogue1677x]

The only way to escape me was to send me upstairs to my grandparents apartment. As the tales go, however, peace lasted maybe half hour before my grandfather sent me downstairs after fighting with me (keep in mind I was between the ages of 2-3 during this time).

The way my grandmother told it, my grandfather would get into an argument with me and being stubborn, I argued back. He got tired of arguing with me so sent me back to my parents to torment them.

 

[mylilnikita]

Lol I’m a Gen X er, so they had the whole house to themselves until the streetlights came on .

 

[Lumpy1106]

Hawaii
My parents would send us to the grandparents house and leave us for a week. OK, it was a planned vacation but still. It's a luxury DW and I do not have. We've only ever left the kids overnight, and then only about once or twice in a year.

 

[scrappinginontario]

My parent's didn't 'go' anywhere but what they did was brilliant!

I remember standing on my bed and looking under my blind and wondering why my friends were still outside playing and I was in bed.

Found out as an adult that when my parents wanted to enjoy a late differ without the kids, they'd change all the clocks in the house to move them ahead an hour so that we'd go to bed early!

Well played mom and dad!! (LOL - and it worked! My parents just celebrated their 65th Wedding Anniversary last week!!)

 

[amcnj]

I don’t really recall this happening. Though at the time when I was growing up it would have been the kids who were sent somewhere (go play outside, go play in the basement, go to your room…).

 

[goofyernmost]

Never had thar situation. We did thing as a family. They didn't take vacations and leave us at home. If they couldn't afford to take us, they didn't go. But when it came time for us to be grown up they had no problem with the empty nest. They felt that their job was to have us and then raise us to function on our own. Yea, they were there in the background, but they never once used there parental psychological power to sway us in any way.

My wife and I did the same thing. I believe we took one 5 day trip to Myrtle Beach and left them with my parents, but other than that it was one for all and all for one. They both went off to college right after high school and then returned for a brief stay after graduation, but within 6 months they were out on their own. We never forced them one way or the other as far as pushing them out, they left because they wanted to knowing that we would be there if they had a serious problem. They, like myself, never took residence back home after they left.

 

[mjkacmom]

Lol I’m a Gen X er, so they had the whole house to themselves until the streetlights came on .

Exactly. My parents were great, but they had their own lives. We had sitters most nights, they were very involved in the community. We played outside, or entertained ourselves inside. It was the peanuts generation, we had dinner together most nights, but we didn’t do things together. I had a great childhood, lived on a dead end with lots of families, we and several others had built in pools, one family had a basketball and volleyball courts in the backyard, pool and pingpong tables in the walk out basement, always a kickball or whiffle ball game happening in the circle (end of street). It was very 70’s, the neighborhood a village.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Don’t recall this ever happening.

 

[loves to dive]

I don't recall that ever happening. 6 kids, stay at home Mom so only one income. Of course, Mama had the house all to herself while we were at school and most nights we were outside playing with friends until supper time after school. My brothers all played sports so they were at practice a lot so I was almost an only child at times (only girl 5 older brothers). Mama and Daddy did belong to a bowling league but they took us with them when they went bowling. We never took vacations until I was in high school. Then we did a lot of family camping trips. I can maybe recall 3 times in my entire life until I was a teenager that Mama and Daddy went out and left us at home, by then my oldest brother was old enough to babysit the rest of us.

 

[disneychrista]

Mom probably just sent me to grandmas house.

 

[hertamaniac]

My parents would travel together without me (once I was old enough to stay at home by myself). Ah...the memories of Domino's Pizza, Intellevision and neighbors coming over for all-nighter video game wars.