WPBP of the day

stina93446

Your favorite toy growing up was __________.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have?

One of the best memories I have of my dad is ____________.

My parents' way of disciplining me was ______________.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way?

stina93446

Your favorite toy growing up was barbie dolls and paper dolls. I still have all my paper dolls in a folder somewhere.
Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have? I have 2 younger siblings. 
One of the best memories I have of my dad is when he took me to the dentist. I shouldn't say it's fond in the sense of "OMG that was great" but rather "what a funny guy" now that I'm older. My dad told me we were going to the toy store. We park the car and we're at the dentist. I was getting a tooth pulled...haha, yeah, toy store, right! We didn't even go to the toy store afterwards either. Oh dad!
My parents' way of disciplining me was spanking and time out.
Are you going to discipline your children the same way? More time out than spanking because it's now regarded as child abuse. However, sometimes a kid needs a good hit to the behind to snap out of their funk.

jagore08

Your favorite toy growing up was Teddy Ruxpin.
Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have?One older sister.
One of the best memories I have of my dad is prom dress shopping.  I never knew how opinionated (in a good way) he could be about clothes.  Because of that, he was the one that I wanted to go wedding dress shopping with.
My parents' way of disciplining me was spanking and grounding (although the grounding never really worked).
Are you going to discipline your children the same way? Probably.  I believe that there are times when children need a good pop on the behind.

baystateapple

Your favorite toy growing up was my American Girl dolls.  I had Molly and Samantha.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have? No, I have a little sister.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is climbing Mt. Washington in NH with him when I was 10.

My parents' way of disciplining me was sending me to my room, or making me do chores.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? Yup.

waltzingmatilda13

Your favorite toy growing up was my cabbage patch kids.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have? I have 1 older sister.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is shopping with him at Home Depot. He would always put us in a cart and run down an aisle and let go, so we went careening down the aisle. It was so much fun and I loved how my dad didn't care about playing in stores. 

My parents' way of disciplining me was grounding me. Which didn't happen often because I was the "good" child. I rarely got in trouble. 

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? Probably. I think it hurts them more when they don't get to hang out with friends and go to events they really want.

Manwaithiel

Your favorite toy growing up was? Sticks and boxes

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have? 2 siblings

One of the best memories I have of my dad is a lot of things. He once drove 90 mph down the highway to make it to my high school senior night. He also introduced me to sugar cereals for the first time even though my mom wasn't too thrilled about it. He's the best

My parents' way of disciplining me was either spanking or grounding. I was terrified of both.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? Yes.

lalap69

Your favorite toy growing up was my cabbage patch doll.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have?  Nope, two siblings, both younger.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is us screaming and jumping around the den together when my acceptance to law school came in.

My parents' way of disciplining me was usually yelling, ocassionally spanking if we still didn't listen.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way?  I'm going to try to yell less, but probably about the same, yeah.

suz62984

Favorite toy growing up? I have no idea what the actual name was but it was a little "bike" thing that sits low to the ground. One wheel in front and two in the back. You move the handle bars from side to side and it moves you around. Also, I had one of those battery charged jeep cars in burgundy.

Do you have siblings? How many? I have one younger brother. I've always been close with my cousins so they were like brothers too. I'm the only girl on either side of my family.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is: I don't have any. The only things I remember from my childhood that involved him are bad memories. Then again, most of my childhood has been blocked out. I only remember little things here and there before the age of 13.

My mom's way of disciplining was? Hitting of some kind. When I was younger it was spanking with a belt. When I got older it was hitting me in the face or chest.

Will you do the same? Yes, I will spank but not be as severe as my mother.

frogurt814

Your favorite toy growing up was barbie dolls.  I still have all of mine.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have?  I have one older brother.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is there was this big hill on the way to my uncle's house.  My dad would always drive really fast down it (ok, so really fast is probably not that fast, but when I was little it seemed really fast) so then when we would get to the bottom and start going up the other side of the hill it felt like a roller coaster.  That was fun.

My parents' way of disciplining me was a spank and then timeout.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way?  Probably.  It's not like my parents beat us when they spanked us.  Just a light swat to the butt and then timeout.  Time out can be very effective if done right.  I hated time out more than the spank.

frogurt814

Suz - big wheel!!!  My brother and I each had a big wheel (I don't know if that's the actual name, but that's what we called them!)

jaimed99

Your favorite toy growing up was my "Cabbies" (Cabbage Patch Kids)...I have a pic of me at like 2 totally surrounded by them!
Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have? I am the oldest of three...I have a younger brother and a younger half-sister.
One of the best memories I have of my dad is probably Myrtle Beach '99...I was 17 and it was the last time I went on a family vacation...we had a blast
My parents' way of disciplining me was usually grounding...got popped a few times but very rarely...grounding doesn't work, however, when you're not home to enforce it...my mom worked a million hours a week so she wasn't home much when my brother and I were preteen/teens...
Are you going to discipline your children the same way? I ground my daughter by taking privileges/grounding/early bedtime...I think I've only had to spank her 2-3 times in her life and that was for serious offenses...usually I pick the punishment to suit the offense (ie she has to clean my car door because she decided to write on it for no apparent reason)

suz62984

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[QUOTE]Suz - big wheel!!!  My brother and I each had a big wheel (I don't know if that's the actual name, but that's what we called them!)
Posted by frogurt814[/QUOTE]

I remember big wheels those were fun too. This thing was a little different. It didn't have peddles. It was propeled by the rider turning the handlebars from side to side. I've been trying to find a picture online but can't. This is a really weird modern version.

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suz62984

FOUND IT! The Roller Racer!

megk8oz

Your favorite toy growing up was a Teeny Turtle Tot. They were these plush baby turtles and their shell could be removed and you could put their little accessories in it like it was a "diaper bag".

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have?
I have 2 sisters (1 older, 1 younger) and 2 brothers (Both younger, the youngest is adopted)

ETA: My 2 younger siblings are actually half-siblings, as my step-dad is their dad ... but I rarely even think of them as "half". Honestly, I don't really point out that the youngest is adopted that much IRL, either.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is well, my step-dad is the guy that I consider my "dad" (He's pretty much raised me since I was 3), so I'm talking about him. I've always been an avid reader and he's one, too, ... none of my other siblings are really into it at all. So he would take me to the library and bookstores without them and let me browse for as long as I wanted.

My parents' way of disciplining me wasI wasn't really ever "bad", but it pretty much always entailed having something "fun" taken away, like time outs or I wouldn't be allowed to go play at a friends house, or when I got older I wasn't allowed to use the phone or watch my favorite tv show. Believe it or not, that actually did work on me (Again, I rarely got in trouble).

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? Honestly, it worked on me and my siblings, none of is ever got into any "real" trouble (You'd think we were the Brady Bunch kids or something, lol) ... so yeah, I'll give it a shot.

emilyinchile

Your favorite toy growing up was board games.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have? Sort of. I have a half sister who's 26 years older than I am and lives in England, so it's not like we grew up together. I basically consider myself an only child.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is the storytapes he made me. He traveled a lot for work, and I always listened to kids' books on tapes to fall asleep, so he made me tapes of him reading me stories.

My parents' way of disciplining me was nothing, really. When I was little I was sent to my room a few times and spanked a couple times, but when I was older I really didn't do anything that required punishing beyond a conversation about what I'd done wrong.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? Probably. I feel like my parents made the line between "ok" and "not ok" very clear from the start, and there were consequences for "not ok," so by the time I was older I more or less behaved.

Licia&Wayne

Your favorite toy growing up was I loved my Skip-It and anything Barbie.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have? I have siblings-a-plenty. I have 2 older brothers, an older half sister and an older half brother. I'm the baby.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is that every Sunday morning when I was little he would put me on his lap in his recliner and would read the Sunday comics to me, comic by comic.

My parents' way of disciplining me was walking the block, maybe like 2 spankings ever, standing in the corner, sending me to my room, and I got grounded once or twice. I wasn't a bad kid so they didn't need anything more severe than that.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? Probably. It was pretty effective.

SSaltzman87

Your favorite toy growing up was- my American Girl Dolls! They're all in my parents' storage unit now.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have?- I just have one older sister.

One of the best memories I have of my dad is- him really bonding with my FI and buying my FI random things for his truck :-P.

My parents' way of disciplining me was- grounding and/or doing chores. Neither I or my sister ever did anything that warranted a more severe punishment.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? Yes.

beckster5551

Your favorite toy growing up was-  My Cabbage Patch Doll:) I lost her when I was on vacation when I was 9 and cried the whole vacation.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have?- I have one older brother

One of the best memories I have of my dad is- I really don't have any...I have a lot of good memories about his farm but none involve him...

My parents' way of disciplining me was- Mom: She was all about yelling and grounding. Dad: Hitting.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? No way! My mom yelling at me never had a lasting affect on me. I don't agree with hitting a child but maybe spanking. The jury is still out on that....

SassyBrass

Your favorite toy growing up was: It's hard to choose. If I was playing with with my brother, probably legos. If I was by myself, my little "town" (the buildings were these blocks with stickers and I would always have the same layout for the town.) If with my best friend at the time, barbies or paper dolls.
Obviously I wasn't picky.

Are you an only child? If not, how many siblings do you have? I have one older brother. He was my best man!

One of the best memories I have of my dad is: pretending to fight in the car at intersections. We'd be there with the windows down and I'd be yelling at him for ruining my life and he'd yell that I wasn't really his kid or something like that. Then we'd start laughing after we'd drive off. Also sometimes as young kids we'd be at the grocery store in the meats section. I would be yelling at my brother that I wanted liver for dinner and he'd yell "No! I want Beef tongue!!" After us going back an forth, my dad would come up at us "If you two don't knock it off, we're going home with steak!!" Then we'd whine and eventually come up with a solution. "Okay, let's get liver."
Yeah... we were kind of an oddball family.

My parents' way of disciplining me was: I don't remember getting disicplined much as a kid. My parents separated around the time my brother and I were to "get into trouble" age so they had their own stuff to deal with.
Other than that, they were both pretty easygoing, and we didn't really get into a lot of trouble.

Are you going to discipline your children the same way? I don't feel like being in their face all the time, but I would imagine we won't be as passive as they were.