When you were a child did you pick on children or were you picked?
819429
Picked on.\nIt got to where I never took the direct way home.  I think I was more familiar with the local alleys than the garbagemen were.  I was an olive-skinned child in a fair-skinned school.  I wasn't pretty or socially adept.  I got beat up by ignorant bullies for being...take your choice...Black, Mexican, Jewish, Gypsy, Italian.  I was called every racial epithet you can think of.  Whatever they didn't like, that's what I looked like to them.  By the way, I am of Slovak, Bohemian, Polish descent.\nI sure learned the value of racial tolerance.
186847
My father molested me for years...As an adult I spent a year trying to plan out a way to hurt him..to get revenge. When I finally had a plan and was ready to put it into action, I found out that he had died a year before...right around the time I started to plan this thing...It was like the godess telling me that karma is NOT in my hands at all and that it was arrogant for me to ever think it was.
517829
The first time they laid my newborn son in my arms. EVERY priority in my world changed! If I was not an adult then, I had better become one real quick, because I had to meet every need he had in this world. I did, he grew up, and now has kids of his own.
1139564
Your parents did it to you.\n\n(That's true in my case anyway)
272514
Yes I do. When I acted up as a kid, I KNEW I could count on a spanking. Kept me in line, and it wasn't cruel at all. \n\nMore parents need to spank their kids. 'Time outs' just don't do it.
637748
Probably when I was about 10, yes.
389816
When I was 14 I saw a kid beating up a chubby kid.  His friends were laughing at the chubby kid(big boned  lol)and they were hitting him.  All of these kids were skinny.  So I just couldnt take it anymore and started to seperate them.  I pushed the other kids off of him and started to swing some punches but they ran.  The kid that was getting bullied thanked me and said they always beat me up.  I felt so angry at those kids.  3 months later I saw the chubby kid again and he said that those skinny kids never hit him or talk to him anymore.\n\nI felt so happy :)  I felt GOOD inside and I still feel good!\n\nEDIT: Oh sorry I didnt see  "cultural" in your post.  But this story still kinda relates to this. I guess....
464060
I am now 19 and I have a little sister who is 13 as well and when i was younger i also picked at my little sister i guess it was because she was smaller than i was but don't think for a second it was because I didn't care about her it was just that when i was 15 there where a whole lot of things changing in my life at the time and I needed someone to take it out on and she was the only one there smaller than myself. Trust me once she gets a little older it will all pass.
931354
That is a touchy subject for me.My daughter had a door slammed on her finger,her little finger was hanging off.\n\nI wave them about,then put them in my mouth.
572993
my daughters growing up.\n40
63745
ummmm. . how about the school that you went to when you were little?
919432
yes, when I was in 3rd grade this kid who was really weird (I'm not really sure if he was all there) we had been talking early and we were walking out to the bus and he just turned around and punched me in the face!! I got on the bus and the driver was like what the heck happened to you?? so I had to stay and my mom picked me up...it was weird
89890
Laying in the crib with my twin sister.  I was probably 2 years old but limited or no vocabulary.  I remember waking up - I may have had a nightmare - seeing her laying there next to me and having a great sense of contentedness.\n\nAlso when I was two, I remember getting stung by a bee and having my mom care for me.  She placed me in front of the television to watch Jetsons and waited on me with some tasty snacks.  I remember liking having her baby me.
867975
When my children were young, I was told to keep them close to me early on and they'll be confident as they grow up. Sure enough it worked. My kids could go places and be comfortable with people while they grew up as they had been very close while learning to be independant.
1101908
I think you are absolutely correct!!  I have seen both scenerios....I have friends who let their child do anything they wanted because they didn't want to 'squash their spirit' and now they are in trouble with the law and think rules don't apply to them because they never have before.  Then I've got friends who were pretty strict, made their children say Please and Thank you and show respect, as well as follow rules.  Those children are now self-disciplined teenagers, making good grades and volunteering throughout the community.  It all started when they were 3 and under.  Its hard to do they said, because they felt like they were playing 'drill sargeant' all the time, but it paid off.
56782
did you get attacked by a bird when you were little??? lol
74527
My mom told me you found babies under rocks.... I told her to put my little sister back and find a better one...lol.... I was 6 yrs.