You know you were raised by hippies when...

topic posted Thu, April 24, 2008 - 4:32 PM by  Innana
You know you were raised by hippies when...

* Your name is Sensamailia, Spitfire, Rainbow, Coriander, Aster, Peach Fuzz, or the like.
* As a child, a nutritious after school snack consisted of your parents "stems and seeds" found on a tray on the living room table.
* the jungle of house plants, next to the television, served not only as a good hiding place for hide and seek when you were a kid, but they smelled nice too, especially when they were cut and hung to dry.
* when your parents tried to rid you of lice the "natural way," and none of the herbal remedies worked, they decided that the next best choice was to shave your head... which within it's self is fine, but the photos of you running bare ass naked and completely balled, resembling one of the aliens from Close Encounters, is a keepsake that's been shared with company one too many times!
* instead of time outs or spankings, your punishment for missbehaving as a child was to do yoga poses and excercise out the "negative energy"

Okay folks.... add to the list... when I thinnk of more I will post them. This should be fun!
posted by:
Innana
California
  • Re: You know you were raised by hippies when...

    Thu, April 24, 2008 - 5:56 PM
    You know you were raised by hippies when...

    *The theme music of your childhood consists of Bob Marley and the Grateful Dead.
    *You were brought home from the midwives in a Volkswagen Bug with no front passenger seat.
    *Your parents told you that it is okay to experiment with drugs, just be safe and smart.
    *You rebelled by joining the D.A.R.E. project at school instead of going out and partying.

    Ahhhh, the story of my life, LOL!
    • Re: You know you were raised by hippies when...

      Thu, April 24, 2008 - 6:07 PM
      That is some funny sh#*~!
      • Re: You know you were raised by hippies when...

        Thu, April 24, 2008 - 8:10 PM
        ...when you attend an alternative school in the 70s and your teachers are called "john" and "gail"...
        ...when you redall fondly the vigil held in honor of john lennon's untimely death...
        ...when the parking lot at grateful dead concerts are your family reunions...
        • Re: You know you were raised by hippies when...

          Wed, April 30, 2008 - 12:32 AM
          ...when the parking lot at grateful dead concerts are your family reunions...

          as much of a hippy as my good ol' mama was... she didn't take me to the dead lot... I found my own way there when I was 19... never went back home... never been the same.... never looked at "family" quite the same either... never experienced anything like it since...and fortunatly or unfortunatly (depends on how you look at it)... I was the hippy mama that did take her kids to the lot on a couple of occasions... even did a tour with them in tow; not the best idea... but we were between a rock and a hard place (Maine) and had to get back to the land of milk and honey (Cali.) so tour was our mode of transportation... we had food, family, community, a way of making gas money, and an opportunity to share our history with our kids... and let them see the dead, the lot, and some of our old family who we had missplaced along the way... and yes, I met the love of my life, father of my children, and now husband of 18 years... at my first dead show... yeah, when I was 19...
  • ....you took baths in the creek behind your cabin
    ....you didnt wear clothes till you were about 12
    ....taking a trip into 'town' was a huge affair
    ....your idea of a snack was to sit in the garden and munch green beans etc off the plant/vine
    ....your yard was the entire national forest, which was off limits during hunting season (unless you play covered head to toe in Orange)lol.
  • okay, this probably isn't a funny answer. but i'd say when you watched all your parents' friends' marriages crumbling cuz they were all so cool with their open marriages and it felt incredibly unstable and upsetting and now when your friends tell you with a naughty or proud glimmer in their eye that they are poly you just want to tell them to shut the fuck up. and when you feel sorry for the kids being shlepped to farms and half cared for because you remember sitting out with the dogs in fields and feeling more pathos in the dogs than in the stoned humans.

  • *your mothers' boyfriend referred to certain paraphernalia as a 'lamp'
    *your mothers' earlier boyfriend ran an organic saurkraut business from the back of a volvo
    *you attended gatherings i.e. Rainbow & Reggae on the River
    *Astrological aspects are used as the reason why you can't go riding around in your high school friends' car
  • * You went to Summer Camp where the co-administrator/head counsler was Wavy Gravy (Camp WinnaRainbow) up in the redwoods of Mendacino County. Swimming was going to the river where 1/2 the people there were nekid. I went for 4 years at 7,8, 9 & 10.

    * It was still ok to walk to school on your own on a major street when you were in 1st -6th grades in major city's (Los Angeles & San Francisco).

    * Some of your mom's best friends were her pot buyers... how else was she going to be able to afford to be a stay at home mom.

    * The most stoned you've ever been in your life was at 12 eating a "magic cookie" and going with mom and a friend to the Grateful Dead concert.

    * You got lucky with your name thank goodness but your brother... not so much... his first name is a synonym for Shit (really my brother's birth name is Pooo Bear after Winne the Pooh).

    * Your parents were entreprenuers and one of the failed businesses was candles rolled in green hay like stuff intended to resemble pot stems, seeds, and leaves. The business failed because of the highly flamableness of the hay and almost burning down the house.

    I got more but this is all I can think of for now (and yes they are all real).

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