My childhood's worst nightmare

Lol! blue peter! god you remember that? I've blanked it out!

@WorDazza yes! I never got the point of the show either

@Drosophila I have an excellent memory! Not always a good thing!!

Thanks! It indeed was one of the things that caused me a lot of mental stress at a young age. As a consequence, I am much happier as an adult, as I never had to do anything I don't want to again. It's such a relief!

That is great to hear! That someone also hates milk! You also touched a good point too! Accursed free milked!!!! When I was finally old enough to go to school, I thought my milk drinking days are over! Only to be haunted by the accursed free milk! At one point, I really thought I was never going to be free of this nightmare. xD As a consequence, I am much happier as an adult, as I never had to do anything I don't want to again. It's such a relief!

I love, rice semolina and tapioca puddings

@Drosophila Oh jays, I thought I would die in school..it gave me a bad stomach.

Amen! another person with bad milk memories!

@TiarasOceanView oh! sounds like unpasteurized dodgy milk

@Drosophila oh forcing kids to sleep in the afternoon is widely practiced here in our country.

@yalul070 Ya I never got used to the napping thing, am a night owl, I get up around 9:30, so napping at 13:00 seems to be very odd xD

ah well! napping is an odd habit alright, I never got into it myself. Glad to hear you did end up enjoy napping

Yes, I can understand that! Milk has a strong smell, ever smelt it when it goes bad.. seriously unpleasant.

@Drosophila Yes, I agree with you that may be at that point of time (when you were a kid) there would not have been much awareness about lactose sensitivity and you were unnecessarily forced to take the milk. Actually, for infants/kids milk is considered as a complete food, therefore, every parent tries that his kids must take milk. Nonetheless, for those who are lactose sensitive, now a days there are other options available for their nourishment (e.g. Soybean milk or peanut milk).

Lucky you! but hey, it's children that love milk that really makes it tough for the rest of us. As adults back then don't understand that lactose sensitive is a genetic condition (got it from my dad, who never drink milk anyway). So in their mind all children must have milk, those who don't are just spoilt.

@dpk262006 Ya lactose intolerance is an annoying thing! As when you're a baby, your baby genes are functioning and can produce enough lactase to digest milk sugar. That's why you don't see babies being lactose intolerant. However, once you become an "adult", at the age of 2+ onwards, the "adult" lactase genes kick into action, as the baby genes "switch off". All of a sudden, you no longer produce enough lactase to digest what you can previously digest! So ya it becomes food poisoning from then onwards Most adults, however, don't necessarily have the knowledge of this phenomenon so continue to "force milk" as it's something the child was having fine before, which is why, as a parent one should not force feed milk to kids pass the age of 2+ This is something I've only learnt when I went to university! Around 90% of Asians and a good 10% of the Europeans are lactose intolerant. So really its a big problem

@Drosophila When we look back it is hard to imagine the ignorance. I wonder if those people had any kind of clue or were completely clueless as to the needs of a child? Yes, I can see how something like that would challenge you to face certain things. Like the authority is wrong sometimes? Good for you. By the way, i guess you need to think about getting cheese while i need to stay away from it because I sure eat a lot of dairy products. I'm an ice-cream and frozen yogart addict.

I don't do yogurt! But I do eat lactose-free cheese ever so often. It sure does sticks with you, I must admit, it was a huge mental stress source for me as a child. But as a consequence am a much happier and stronger adult. I'm now more in a position to say no, and not just being forced something. I also learned at a young age, if something totally disagrees with you, it probably will remain that way. Don't put up with a bad situation unnecessarily.

@Bluedoll Actually, if you read some of the comments to this post, and my subsequent post on lactose intolerance, you'll see that lactose intolerance still confuses people. So yes, I have no doubt, some child somewhere is still being force fed milk.. on the assumption that its good for you.

awww, am sure something will work out!

@Drosophila I certainly hope so

@arthurchappell Am sure of it :D

@DianneN I don't think I will ever force another human being to drink milk! xD Lesson learned

That's probably true! Btw, uncanny how adults always forced children to finish milk. :D

@Drosophila Isn't it????

@Scindhia good god! it sounds like more fitting for handbags and shoes!

ya that doesn't sound pleasant "bitter gourd"

@Drosophila It has scales like crocodile too which totally doesn't make it appetizing!

Unfortunately lactose intolerance can't be cured, as we just don't produce enough lactase to digest milk sugar. Lactase production is governed by adult genes which once switch on, just pretty much does what it wants to. So ya the only thing to do is not to drink milk

@OKennedy It's ok, I'm just happy no one is forcing me to drink it anymore. I don't really do ice cream, or yogurt. So it is ok. I do eat lactose-free cheese once a while.

@Drosophila that's a total bummer I have met many people with that problem and even something like enjoying an ice cream cone. I have heard about that new lactaid milk although I don't know if it really works. Not that it makes a difference but I am sorry that you can't have milk.

You're lucky! So you're not lactose sensitive then?

@rina110383 You have good taste as a kid!!!

@Drosophila No, I'm not. I was just choosy when I was a kid. I prefer meals (rice & meat/fish) than milk=)

Erm.. you do realise that there's a genetic condition called "lactose intolerance/sensitive right?" It's not something you can "learn to live with". your body simply cannot not digest milk. If you force people who has this condition to drink milk, it's like food poisoning for them!!

In case you're not aware of this: "as a parent one should not force feed milk to kids pass the age of 2+ " Around 90% of Asians and a good 10% of the Europeans are lactose intolerant. Ya lactose intolerance is an annoying thing! As when you're a baby, your baby genes are functioning and can produce enough lactase to digest milk sugar. That's why you don't see babies being lactose intolerant. However, once you become an "adult", at the age of 2+ onwards, the "adult" lactase genes kick into action, as the baby genes "switch off". All of a sudden, you no longer produce enough lactase to digest what you can previously digest! So ya it becomes food poisoning from then onwards Most adults, however, don't necessarily have the knowledge of this phenomenon so continue to "force milk" as it's something the child was having fine before. This is something I've only learnt when I went to university!

thats lot of real informations. I really am impressed and never knew!!!

yep I guess you were born to eat vegetables

That is good to hear that your childhood was stress free :D

ouch that sounds like trauma! I hope you were alright!

I am not a big fan of spiders either!

That's great to hear that your childhood is good :D

ya that was a big stress for me too.. come to think of it, I had more mental stress as a kid than as an adult