Can you imagine being given this opportunity

Norman_Conquest

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Can you imagine being given this opportunity as a child and she's having a whinge about it stealing her childhood?

We went for day's out in the summer with our mum and dad over the moors and holidayed in a caravan on the Yorkshire Coast each year, never anywhere exotic but it was magical to us and the memories of Whitby, Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington live on. In my teens, we got adventurous and went to Heysham where my dad worked, Carmarthen Bay the following year and Great Yarmouth the next. That was my last family holiday with my parents, brother and three sisters.

I would have loved being taken out of school (I use to take myself out of school regularly and go up Eston Hills) and travel the world.


 
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Can you imagine being given this opportunity as a child and she's having a whinge about it stealing her childhood?

We went for day's out in the summer with our mum and dad over the moors and holidayed in a caravan on the Yorkshire Coast each year, never anywhere exotic but it was magical to us and the memories of Whitby, Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington live on. In my teens, we got adventurous and went to Heysham where my dad worked, Carmarthen Bay the following year and Great Yarmouth the next. That was my last family holiday with my parents, brother and three sisters.

I would have loved being taken out of school (I use to take myself out of school regularly and go up Eston Hills) and travel the world.


It's an appalling case of child abuse from an extremely selfish parent. 'Stealing her childhood' is an accurate description.
 
It's an appalling case of child abuse from an extremely selfish parent. 'Stealing her childhood' is an accurate description.
Yeah, you are right. He should have just sat at home and in his latter years of life thought about the adventure he could have taken his family on.

Or he could have sent her to a boarding school and they had the best of both worlds.

You only get one go at it, don't mess it up and have any regrets.
 
Can you imagine being given this opportunity as a child and she's having a whinge about it stealing her childhood?

We went for day's out in the summer with our mum and dad over the moors and holidayed in a caravan on the Yorkshire Coast each year, never anywhere exotic but it was magical to us and the memories of Whitby, Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington live on. In my teens, we got adventurous and went to Heysham where my dad worked, Carmarthen Bay the following year and Great Yarmouth the next. That was my last family holiday with my parents, brother and three sisters.

I would have loved being taken out of school (I use to take myself out of school regularly and go up Eston Hills) and travel the world.


A decade on a boat for a 7 year old. Exactly the same as a trip up Eston Hills.

If I think of everything I experienced between the ages of 7 and 17, I wouldn't swap it for that.
 
It sounds an absolutely dreadful experience for a child but it must have imbued a strong sense of self reliance in her........degree at Oxford, PhD at Cambridge now Baroness Heywood of Whitehall.
 
I'm remined of the often touted defence put forward, & the masses nod in agreement, when 'the state' try's to protect children's welfare - "parents know whats best for their children / put their childrens best interests first" - many - really do not.
 
I can see why some might think it exciting, but the truth is she did have her childhood stolen, the parents enforced their dream on their kids and in doing so, put them in mortal danger to boot. He described it as a benevolent dictatorship, in reality it was just a dictatorship, no benevolence was present. The kids wishes had no weighting in decision making, I totally understand her feelings. Reading that, I thank the lord my parents were grounded, hard working people who always included their kids at the heart of family life and kept their personal dreams in check to ensure ours could grow, flourish and inspire us to experience our own along the way.
 
A decade on a boat for a 7 year old. Exactly the same as a trip up Eston Hills.

If I think of everything I experienced between the ages of 7 and 17, I wouldn't swap it for that.
It wasn't a decade on a ship at sea, they spent time ashore at various destinations and had two years in Hawaii.
That is neglect and abuse. Not something to be joked about.
How is it neglect and abuse?
 
I was reading it and thinking how much I would love to do that. But she was a child. Shocking way to treat her, totally child abuse and selfish as hell.
 
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