
I'm inviting you to comment on my list of childhood troubles. Suggest additional words. Help me see the other perspectives.
Abandoned houses,
Attics
Backrooms, Basements,
Baths, BB guns, Beggars lice, Bicycle chains, Black widows, Broccoli, Broken
windows, Bullies
Cherry bombs, Chiggers,
Chores, Cigarettes, Cockle burrs, Copperheads, County fairs, Cousins, Creeks, Culverts, Cat briars
Dinner time, Doctors, Dark
Excuses
Farts, Fibs, Firecrackers,
Flat tires, Flirts, Four letter words
Grammar, Green
beans, Gnats
Hammers, Homework
Idle time
Jawbreakers
Kisses
Ladders, Lawn
mowers, Locked doors
Matches, Mud, Multiplication
No-see-ums
Outhouses
Peashooters, Peeing
contests, Playing cards, Poison ivy, Preachers, Principals
Questions,
Quarrels
Railroad tracks, Rain,
Riverbanks, Rocks
Spelling, Saturday
matinees, Sawdust piles, Saws, Shovels, Slingshots, Snowballs, Spitting
contests, Spray paint, Sunburn
Teachers, Television,
Teasing, Ticks, Tree swings, Tree houses
Umbrellas,
Underwear
Valentines,
Vacations
Wasps, Welts,
Whippings
Exaggeration
Yellow jackets
Zippers
Video Games, Objectives, Reading, Division, Parents,
ReplyDeleteYea, division - especially long division - was trouble. But now, with the calculator, maybe not.
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