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30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow

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Every family has its own little quirks. That becomes all too obvious when strangers come to live together at some point in their lives. Think of roommates or partners who suddenly realize the most basic daily things, as well as things people think of as normal and acceptable, vary. And they vary greatly.

No wonder people grow up and realize not everything that went down in their parents’ home was actually normal. Insane cases, family rules, habits, and customs can be super weird.

Think of parents who don’t let their children laugh while lying down or kids who were allowed to take just one quick weekly shower; these are among the countless debatable family rules people confessed in these online threads.

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#1

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow We had to take naps on Sunday. Every Sunday. Now that I'm older I realize that was the only chance my parents had to bang.

Swarleysmomma , Elina Fairytale Report

Final score:

178points

Stardust she/her 1 year ago

My parents tried to make my brother and I nap when we were small. I was too hyperactive so they gave up.

28points

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#2

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow A "sock tax".

In retrospect, smart. I hated it at the time.

So, I left my dirty socks around the house. I don't know why I would be taking socks off all over the place, I was a damn kid. I guess I was sloppy and it just happened and the socks had to be off right then and there. Parents got fed up with this. And so, to get my dirty socks back, I had to pay a quarter per sock. Doesn't seem like a big deal at first, but it adds up when you're nine years old. Had to literally nickel and dime my way through a few pairs because I was running out of damn socks, I was kind of a sock deserting addict I guess. Finally got in the habit it of picking up my socks for a while and things seemed fine and then hit a heavy relapse.

Parents gave me a big a*s box of my dirty socks for Christmas that year and a few pairs of new ones. Got better after that. Typing this is making me smile, I really love my mom and dad.

mistersloth , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

161points

KittyGotClaws 1 year ago

The great sock caper: dirty version.

42points

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#3

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow My mom wouldn't let me touch my brother. A side hug was ok for pictures and making up after a fight but no cuddly stuff. And her definition of cuddly was him leaning on me on the couch when he's sick. He's 5 years younger than me and we rarely got along so anything like that was rare. It kind of messed with me when I was younger, she made me feel like I was being a pervert but I still had no idea what I was doing. Once on a car trip (I was super sick with whooping cough) I was sprawled across the back seat and my head was touching my brother's leg. She flipped out. "No. No. That's not right. Not ok. Get on your side." He was 10! I was 15! WTF mom??

doglover2000 , Annie Spratt Report

Final score:

158points

ginny weasley 1 year ago

Guessing mom was also an anti-vaxxer and an idiot. Kids should all be vaccinated against whooping cough and she shouldn't have been transporting a kid with a highly infectious disease in a car with a non sick kid. 15 is old enough to stay home when that sick.

88points

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#4

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow I wasn't allowed to date black people darker than me.

DownvoteDaemon , Justin Groep Report

Final score:

147points

Serial pacifist 1 year ago

Wow, today I learned that there is such a thing as graded racism.

143points

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#5

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow No Harry Potter, because of all the wizards.

Now, I could understand the rule except for one thing, I was allowed to play DnD, read LotR, have friends who were literally occultists. But no Harry Potter.

Final score:

145points

_scarlett_ 1 year ago

My religious education teacher at school once gave us a lecture when someone brought up harry potter, on how witchcraft was actually real and it's a sin and all that. Cue a class full of 11 year olds staring at her in disbelief 😂

54points

Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

And then heading off to the public library to find books on witchcraft no doubt.

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Monday 1 year ago

My Sunday school teacher did the same! Then when one girl started questioning him on it he went off on this whole tirade about how magic was bad, playing the sims was bad, wearing clothes with skull patterns on it was bad......and the next week he was surprised when half the class just stopped going.

9points

hardrad2009 1 year ago

I was told at school that the Beatles and AC/DC were tools of satan.

9points

harpling 1 year ago

My Sunday School teacher told us that Santa wasn't real and that believing in him meant we would burn in Hell. I was 5.

6points

Lara Verne 1 year ago

Seriously? It sounds like your teacher was bananas. Unbelievable.

2points

Dan Bexell 1 year ago

Look at the things SHE thinks are true.

1point

Vasana Phong 1 year ago

Our preacher mentioned this during one of her sermons, I just assumed it was a book made into a movie without looking into it that deep

0points

spirit wolf 1 year ago

While the nuns at my very catholic boarding school had absolutely no problem with all of us reading Harry Potter, my "born again" neighbor sure did. Besides Harry Potter books on my shelf, the dragon carved on the chinoiserie cabinet - that's where bad spirits were escaping into our world from and by doing yoga I am inhaling in all the bad spirits into my body. Crazy a*s Miss Nancy, we still keep our regular visits though so she can notify me regularly on all the horrors out there lol

8points

AspieGirl88 1 year ago

But … “Lord Of The Rings” literally has wizards! Otherwise, what is Gandalf, chopped liver?? 🤣

4points

king raven 1 year ago

"No, one or two wizards is ok. But in Harry Potter, there are simply too many!!!1!"

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Littlemiss 1 year ago

I dated someone who told his kids Harry Potter was p*rn and would rot their brains. They were allowed to read adult comics with explicit s*x scenes though.

2points

Courtney Christelle 1 year ago

That always gets me. A book about the power of friendship, acceptance, doing the right thing even when it's hard, never giving up and good overcoming evil. I can see why gatekeeping, bigoted religious folk would have a problem with it.

2points

Stannous Flouride 1 year ago

People who believe everything in a book filled with all sorts of 'miracles' and perversions like incest, rape, murder, etc. is 'real' don't want people reading books that are openly fictitious. Okay. Got it.

2points

Luna Crow 1 year ago

Well it's not a very catchy or well written book, so the only way to get it to take is to eliminate any potential competition. Or so I've come to believe after a similarly censored upbringing

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Selina Kyle 1 year ago

A childhood without Harry Potter is just misery

2points

Nandros M 1 year ago

No HP in our time but still we managed to survive.

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Michelle Hasenkamp 1 year ago

And no Lucky Charms because they're magically delicious

2points

Mark Kelly 1 year ago

Pfft my mom is religious but not like that kind of religious. I mean she didn't like swearing in the house but she didn't care if we watched fantasy movies on TV

1point

Huddo's sister 1 year ago

Yeah most Christians are totally fine with any fantasy content. In fact I went to a 'Church of the Latter Day Geek' service once, which was cool. Drawing parallels between things that featured in fantasy and sci-fi movies and faith.

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BOTW PANDA 1 year ago

Just a joke, but was your last name Dursley?

1point

Amber Medina 1 year ago

I'm close to 40 and just read the Harry Potter books. Saw the first 2 movies way back, but I really did enjoy the books. Lord of the Rings is way more graphic and bloody (compared to Harry Potter) so I can't understand the logic here.

0points

marie michelle 1 year ago

Aunt Petunia's energy

0points

Cheyenne 1 year ago

A woman I used to work with told me J.K. Rowling was a warlock. 🤣🤣🤣

0points

John Carr 1 year ago

A friend (grown adult) of mine told me he wasn't allowed to real Harry Potter, The DaVinci Code, LoTR and a lot of other books cos some religious group said that they were heretic. Sad thing is that he was a massive fan of fantasy and SciFi when he was a teen.

0points

Lara Verne 1 year ago

If wizards are the problem, how did they let you read LotR? Gandalf wasn't just dude with funny hat!

0points

Jessi Lovely 1 year ago

Omg SAME! Because of the witchcraft 🙄 so it was demonic. Although LoTR was written by a Christian so I guess it was ok?? Now I’m glad I didn’t read the books as I’m not the biggest fan of transphobic authors, but I enjoyed the movies when I grew up and could watch them without my parents knowing.

0points

Max 1 year ago

There are other reasons to not read Harry Potter, like how the author has gone off the deep end.

-3points

Pamela Blue 1 year ago

Interesting these days how people have to be "cancelled" when their opinions don't agree with your own. It used to be tha if your opinion differed, so be it, and you get on with your life. Now? You have to cancel that person out of existence. You must drive them into bankruptcy and non-existence. You must PUNISH them for all time! What a pathetic world we now live in.

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#6

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow When I was 14 my mum banned me from taking selfies. Said they were unnecessary and self absorbed. This was in 2009 and I hated her for it, all my friends were posting cute 'camera in the bathroom mirror' pictures and I couldn't. Now I am grateful because those pictures are cringey af.

flacedpenis , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

145points

FeelingFrisky 1 year ago

Every Once in a while parents know what they're talking about /s

66points

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#7

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow I had to chew my food 50 times before swallowing. It is harder than it sounds. Eating soup was a bastard.

Grounded5am , Annushka Ahuja Report

Final score:

142points

T. Brown 1 year ago

I don't even know how this is possible

60points

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#8

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow My Dad would ground us if the toilet paper was put on incorrectly. He wants it to go under. Now that I'm married and in my own house it always goes over.

Bam223 , Vie Studio Report

Final score:

141points

24 mentally unstable can tabs* 1 year ago

Did you know, and I know nobody asked, but when toilet paper was patented, it was specified that the toilet paper was supposed to go to the front of the roll, not behind.

111points

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#9

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow I was told that my friends could not sleep over because they may murder me and my family. My parents have always come up with weird excuses to avoid having an honest conversation.

anon , Monstera Report

Final score:

137points

T. Brown 1 year ago

Jeeze where did you grow up at??

40points

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#10

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow "Can't costs a quarter!" We weren't allowed to give up on something and say "I can't", and we'd have to put a quarter in this Snoopy bank if we did. She wanted to encourage us to look for solutions and ask for help instead of just giving up. In the long run, I think it helped because I went to school for electrical engineering and am now a web developer where I essentially do problem solving all day long.

St3phiroth , Joshua Hoehne Report

Final score:

135points

Natalie Bohrteller 1 year ago

I really don't think this is stupid. Working with kids myself, I know how they say this so often, especially girls. And instead of explaining them what self-fulfilling prophecy means, I will make them say "Looks hard, but I'll try."

58points

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#11

My family had three valid excuses, and if one of those fit a situation, you were no longer in trouble. You still had to deal with the consequences of your actions like cleaning up a mess or whatever, but no extra punishment.

1. Dad... In my defense, you weren't supposed to find out.

Maybe my parents were supposed to be out of town until Sunday, but they came back a night early and found my friends and I shit faced and a mess everywhere. "Dad, you weren't supposed to find out. I was going to clean it all up and you'd never know." No longer in trouble.

2. Dad, in my defense... it was funny!

This one mostly covered pranking each other. No punishment, but you had to be ready for them to one-up you.

3. Dad... in my defense... there were snakes...

Self explanatory.

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Final score:

121points

Kali Chaos 1 year ago

Okay, your dad sounds awesome.

81points

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#12

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow -Not me, but my bestfriend who is 18 years old isn't allowed to close her door (even if she is changing clothes) and if her parents catch her door closed, $5 fee. -Also $10 fee if she leaves her bedroom light on. -She's not allowed to watch Harry Potter, Twilight etc.. anything to do with magic, or evil spirts regardless if it is rated G. -Didn't attend Sunday church that morning? Grounded for a week and $5 fee

ciaraashley , Storiès Report

Final score:

117points

ginny weasley 1 year ago

Aa the super religious nuts. A great way to make your kid move out and NEVER talk to you again

166points

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#13

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow I wasn't allowed to sit on my bed. I would get into trouble if my friends sat on my bed and crumpled he sheets. They had to stay looking crisp and ironed which is near impossible.

Ur_favourite_psycho , EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA Report

Final score:

111points

Serial pacifist 1 year ago

Did you by any chance have to adrress your parents with: “Yes, sir, sergeant, sir?”

71points

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#14

My mother has always had a white couch. Big, fluffy, inviting sectional type.

No one can sit on this couch, or even breathe near it. God forbid i forget to mention this to company coming over.

I have often wondered why the f**k its even there.

SaithSiro Report

Final score:

107points

ginny weasley 1 year ago

My great grandparents had a formal parlor like this, but everything was shades of avocado and lime green and it was wrapped in plastic. No kids allowed ever though

41points

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#15

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Not really weird but I was never allowed to say I was bored. If I said it too often I was made to sit down and do nothing for about an hour. I learnt pretty quick though that anything was better than sitting and doing nothing!

wisesam , Michał Parzuchowski Report

Final score:

100points

T. Brown 1 year ago

This is like at work telling your boss that you have nothing to do.

42points

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#16

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow I can't leave the house after sneezing and I can't do anything new on Tuesdays because I was born on a Tuesday. Crazy superstitions that my mom refuses to let go.

Achak320 , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

99points

Ches Yamada 1 year ago

What happened if you sneezed before school? lol

71points

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#17

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow My mum wouldn't let me use the dishwasher well into my teens in case I slipped, fell on the open dishwasher and stabbed myself on knives.

She also didn't like me getting things for myself. If I asked her where the chopping board was she'd not tell me. I'd say "just tell me and I can get it" but no, I had to wait for her to stop whatever she was doing to get it for me. It drove me nuts because if I kept asking to get it myself she's shout that I was being demanding. How is wanting to not bother you and be independent in the simplest sense demanding?

Stlieutenantprincess , Nathan Dumlao Report

Final score:

97points

ginny weasley 1 year ago

Why is she loading the silverware basket knives up?

128points

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#18

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Not being allowed to cut our hair...it was down nearly to our knees (it was not religious OR cultural, just, idk). Then my mom let my younger sisters cut theirs but I still wasn't allowed. When I turned 18 and finally could, the hair stylist said I had over a foot of split ends she took off.

anon , Nataliya Vaitkevich Report

Final score:

95points

LeeAnne B 1 year ago

I wasn't allowed to get my ears pierced until I left home. Cue 20 years later, my father wouldn't even look at my nose ring. Hahaha.

41points

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#19

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Our weirdest rule was the Underwear At the Table Rule. Me and my three sisters were big fans of being naked when we were younger, so from ages 3-8 whenever we'd come home from preschool or school, everything would just come straight off regardless of who was home. So my mother instituted the Underwear at the Table-rule, stating that during dinner everyone needs to be wearing underwear at the very least, otherwise no dinner.

This worked for a while and was later complemented by the rule stating that if you have chest hair, you have to wear a shirt (that one applied more to my dad than to us)

Secretkrigs , Tyson Report

Final score:

95points

Friday 1 year ago

I’m on your mother’s side with this one.

170points

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#20

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Not my family, but my best friend's family would always rinse their ice off with water before they poured their beverage in the glass to "wash off the mechanical bugs"

nolabrew , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

95points

Jason 1 year ago

Wonder if they rinsed their water off to get rid of the pipe germs too

74points

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#21

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Mom's parents didn't let their children laugh while lying down. Whenever someone made a joke, if anyone was lying down, they had to sit up and laugh.

smellyGoonerCat , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

91points

Serial pacifist 1 year ago

Taking the term stand-up comedy to the extreme.

100points

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#22

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow We couldn't eat the butter until we turned 13; only margarine.

allenahansen , Sorin Gheorghita Report

Final score:

89points

Stardust she/her 1 year ago (edited)

Your family is right. Butter can impact your pitituary gland preventing it from producing growth hormones before puberty. It can also make you grow a third eye and turn you into a god /s

105points

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#23

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow January was sugar free month. But December 31st was eat as much f*****g sugar as your body will allow.

MrSirLoin , kaouther djouada Report

Final score:

89points

T. Brown 1 year ago

Trying to repair the holiday damage.

41points

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#24

We only ever had one bathroom for everyone to share. Anywhere we moved. Always one bathroom, therefore, if someone was taking forever in the bathroom and you had to use it, you would go sit on the bed of who is in the bathroom until they got out. So if you happen to pee yourself.... After a couple incidents with a 6 year old, nobody took more than 10 minutes in the restroom. Ever.

firefly_98 Report

Final score:

89points

Thorsten Massow 1 year ago

A clever solution for this specific problem.

39points

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#25

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Had to recite the bill of rights verbatim before getting allowance.

anon , david__jones Report

Final score:

83points

Serial pacifist 1 year ago

Parents are lawyers?

26points

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#26

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow If we were naughty, we had to stare down the toilet.

Worked a treat - humiliating, non-physical, and in hindsight pretty f*****g funny. My dad is a joker.

Publish_Lice , Pixabay Report

Final score:

80points

T. Unnamable 1 year ago

You had to "stare down" the toilet... what if the toilet won?

61points

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#27

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Could only have half a glass of milk at a time. I could drink that and then have another half glass. But not a full glass. I was told it was because milk is expensive and they didn't want it wasted.

foodleech , Charlotte May Report

Final score:

78points

Faramir10 1 year ago

That doesn't sound so strange. It'a a good way to prevent wastage.

107points

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#28

We were not allowed to walk through our dining room. Nothing made my mom angrier than having footprints through her OCD vacuum lines in the carpet. It was easier to cut through dining room from the hallway to get to kitchen. Sometimes after mom was asleep, my brothers and I would sneak through. The older we got, she seemed to get crazier about it. I remember all three of us being grounded for a week for one of us walking through, since she couldn't tell who was the guilty one. It's so strange because other than this rule, and not being allowed to sit on our beds, she was lenient otherwise.

paulanka_75 Report

Final score:

76points

KittyGotClaws 1 year ago

My mother was OCD about housecleaning, too. The problem was, I had to do the cleaning from a young age up until I left home. If I didn't do it to her specifications the first time, I had tho do it over until I got it right. I learned to do it right the first time. Lol

21points

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#29

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow No wearing clothes that fit, everything I owned was a couple sizes too big because 'I grew so quickly.'

Aurora320 , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

74points

Almarako94 1 year ago

That's either because of being poor or your parents being scared you attract pedophile if you wear fitting clothes.

43points

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#30

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow During dinner we had each had to discuss 3 things we learned that day. If you didn't have three significant things to discuss you didn't get dessert.

anon , Nicole Michalou Report

Final score:

74points

Almarako94 1 year ago

It trains you to talk about your day, but it would be better if they talk to you right after you come home these first 5 minutes after you see your kids after school, listen listen listen, actively listen (ask question to what they say) and you'll get the smartest kid of the school

28points

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#31

Where do I even begin? We (brother and I) weren't allowed to clip our nails after 6 pm, we weren't allowed to get haircuts on certain days of the week. If we walk very loudly like stomping/making thud sounds, my grandma would say that the earth goddess will curse us. the adults wouldn't eat leftovers so only the kids were given that.. phew so many more. My family was extremely superstitious and religious and guess that explains it.

Final score:

32points

Dana 1 year ago

The earth goddess will curse you - stealing this one

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#32

I wasn't allowed to go to a friend's house unless my parents talked to their parents and made sure we'd be supervised the entire time. This was a rule up until I moved out at eighteen. People thought it was weird, so I didn't have any friends and I literally ate my lunches alone in a bathroom stall. Thanks mom and dad!

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Final score:

31points

Pillowarmidiloroku 1 year ago

Bro you could still call I feel like you got the weird on your own because a lot more people than you think had this

3points

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#33

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Was not allowed to listen to any music that was not Christian. Period. Bands I liked before this rule that they were previously okay with? Banned. Anything not already on the list of approved bands, such as Jars of Clay, had to be thoroughly vetted. Otherwise they would break the CD in front of you, even if it was borrowed from a friend. Genre didn't matter, as long as they were Christian, which meant bands like Underoath and MxPx were cool.

There were plenty of others, but this is the one that still f*****g gets to me over ten years later.

Real-Coach-Feratu , Ivan Samkov Report

Final score:

30points

Almarako94 1 year ago

Time to abandon that religion of hate

19points

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#34

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow My McDonald's potato chips intake was limited to the number of my age.

When I was 4 years old, I was only allowed to eat four chips every time we went to Maccas.

When I was 5, that meant I could eat five chips, and so on. This continued until I was around 12.

chihang321 , Brett Jordan Report

Final score:

29points

Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago

Sounds like someone's parents wanted the chips for themselves...

28points

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#35

I couldn't drink my mom's "special vitamin water"

Turns out it was vodka. RIP

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Final score:

28points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

TIL you can overdose on vitamins.

7points

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#36

Turns out my step mother had a rule that only she or her daughters could eat the 'nose' on a wedge of brie (or some such like cheese) which is often considered the best part. Visiting one weekend, my sister and I did not know this rule and so on permission to start eating, my sister cut some of the nose off and put it on her plate. This resulted in my step mother fleeing the room crying and one of our step sisters throwing a plate at my head.

We were banned from visiting the house for a month and until we had individually said sorry to everyone. No idea how I became part of it.

*Edit I should probably clarify that I was 10, my sister was 12 at the time. My step monster is still with my dad and I don't have anything to do with either of them any more. The final straw was when I went over from some supper one night to find that the monster had hidden prawns in some pastries and not told me. I'm extremely allergic and she nearly killed me.

Ebmoclas Report

Final score:

28points

Another Fool on the Hill 1 year ago

Step monster is the accurate term for this.

23points

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#37

No flushing the toilet at night

You could have an afternoon snack at 3:30 sharp, if you missed 3:30 (like 3:35, you were SOL and had to wait for dinner)

If the weather forecast read anything under 70ºF (21ºC), long sleeved shirts the day after. You were allowed to wear shorts if the forecast read over 80ºF (27ºC).

I had a set of "home" clothes and "outside" clothes. Had to change right when I got home from anything, school, errands, etc.

I couldn't read "Seventeen" magazine because I wasn't 17. I couldn't watch PG-13 movies till I turned 13.

I'm sure there are others, but my mother was strict and controlling and had such a strange set of rules.

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Final score:

28points

That Bi Book Lover 1 year ago

I always have home and outside clothes. I find it disgusting otherwise. No hate to ppl who prefer it otherwise :)

15points

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#38

I wasn't allowed anything remotely entertaining, TV, mobile or toys in my bedroom until I was 16, and that only changed because I bought my own entertainment and convinced my mum that because I bought it and was old enough it shouldn't be a rule anymore. All I had in my bedroom were books and my bed, really bland room.

**Story**

When I was a young child my toys were in the spare room next to my room, my own play room. I soon outgrew toys and spent most of the sunlight out with friends. when I was 15, the Xbox 360 was released and they got one from their parents and rather play Xbox than come outside, it got lonely quick. I didn't and even if I did I wouldn't be able to use it much because my dad would always watch tv, and I wasn't allowed my own tv. So I got a job as a pizza delivery boy saved the money and bought my own Xbox 360 and tv.

I was adamant that I was old enough to have own tv and whatever in my room, even girls. Bought the Xbox 360 and tv, took them home set them up in my room and started playing, around 2 hours later, mum comes in to tell me dinner is ready, then she spots my tv and goes apeshit. So I stood up and I told her, I worked my a*s off to buy this stuff, I earned the money doing a job and that if I'm old enough to work, I am old enough to have a tv or whatever in my room. She walked off, probably to tell my dad then 1 hour later came back with my dinner on a tray and said I was right, I have grown up and that she was proud of me for getting a job and earning money for myself, I can have whatever in my room. JUST DON'T STAY UP ALL NIGHT PLAYING GAMES!

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Final score:

26points

Leoninus Fate 1 year ago

Good for you!

12points

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#39

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow I had to wait until I was 13 to shave my legs. I think I should mention my legs looked like something from caveman days. It was so embarrassing to dress out in P.E.

Kbcst , Sora Shimazaki Report

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25points

Ace 1 year ago

I was well into my thirties before I started shaving my legs and body hair. Not parents, just cultural, I guess. I could never work out why it was OK for boys to have yukky hair all over but not for girls.

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#40

I was doing some online courses while I was in highschool. We had terrible Internet, and no internet access anywhere but the family computer, so I convinced my mom to let me go out and get a wifi router. She allowed it after some time, but any time I wasn't activiley doing my online courses, the router had to be shut off. She said she didn't want the house filling up with the wi-fi...

outtastudy Report

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25points

Almarako94 1 year ago

My mom turned off the router over night breaking it every two months, after some time i told her not to turn it off and oh wonder it didn't break anymore.

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#41

no black policy. i mean, no black clothes or shoes.

i don't even understand why. and of course, only me and my sister were blamed by teachers if we had no matching black shoes for our school formal wear... "what's wrong with you? why are these brown?!" sure, children's fault. /s meh.

edit: once i managed to get an ugly secondhand sweater of the color black and my mother was yelling like mad and my father looked very pissed off either.

poroburger Report

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25points

Roman Hans 1 year ago (edited)

> sure, children's fault. /s meh. I had three sisters & my mom dropped me at my school after dropping them off. I got punished OFTEN for being late ... because it was definitely in my control, right? Add that to "I don't know who started the fight so you both get punished" and you can probably figure out why I left home at 15.

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#42

This one isn't weird, but oppressive might be a good word to describe it. When I was young I had to finish my food, no matter what it was or how much it was. Most of the time I didn't serve myself so I was basically served a big heaping plate of misery and over fullness. I would understand the rule if I served myself and I got way too much, but what the hell?

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25points

RAIZA 1 year ago

This abuse. It happened to me and recently found out it's abuse

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#43

My father told me that if I went to a friend's house and my friend's parents offered me anything to eat, I was supposed to refuse. I took this rule very seriously. I remember once a friend's mother offered me a slice of cantaloupe, and when I refused, she tried really hard to coax me to eat it. It got embarrassing.

My father grew up in poverty on a farm in the south, and he lived through the depression. He always had enough to eat, but there were some kids in the neighborhood who didn't. These kids were always hungry, and would try to scrounge food from neighbors. Neighbors would feed them, but they hated having to do it, and they blamed the kids' parents. So the parents of the hungry kids had a bad reputation; the neighbors assumed they were (and maybe they actually were) alcoholics, or just generally lazy good-for-nothings.

So my father's fear was: if I accepted any food from anybody, or if I appeared to be hungry at all, people would think I wasn't getting enough food at home, and therefore my father was a bad provider.

My father, by the way, had lots of paranoid ideas.

JimDixon Report

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22points

Jason 1 year ago

Depression messed a lot of people up. I learned some of my cooking from my grandmother. She used to show me how to use every part of everything we cooked, no waste. Was a necessity for her back then, now it's good to follow

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#44

30 Weird And Disturbing Rules Parents Had Their Children Follow Change into your pyjamas as soon as you get back from school.

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22points

ginny weasley 1 year ago

Plenty of cultures encourage changing into "house clothes" when you get home from school or work cause street clothes may be dirty or germy. Doesn't necessarily need to be pjs though.

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#45

We couldn't use the word "fart." It was "fluffy."

Final score:

21points

Izzy Curer 1 year ago (edited)

We called it 'wind'.

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#46

We weren't allowed in the lounge room, which was like 40% of the house, as we may mess it up - It was only later in life that the lounge room was open to usage again.

Even worse, my Mum used to make the carpet pile stand up with a broom (it was 80s shag pile carpet) and used to make us walk on the edge of the carpet near the wall so we wouldn't trample it....

BulletDust Report

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20points

Alan Christensen 1 year ago

I wonder if this obsession with perfect lounges/living rooms/parlors is about people wanting SOMETHING perfect in their otherwise unfulfilling life.

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#47

Since my mother is obese, we were never allowed to say the word "fat." Her weight, and the weight of my sisters, was the elephant in the room. We were not allowed to address it, or face punishment in the form of a hit to whichever body part was easily accessible at the time.

I was also not allowed to refuse my parent's requests and orders. Thankfully, neither one did anything like molest us or otherwise take sexual advantage of us. However, the requests were downright lazy and stupid. Most of my childhood, when I was indoors, was spent fetching things for my mom. I would constantly be running to the kitchen to fetch her a drink or snack, or to get the remote off of the table that was 5 feet away from her.

The second part made me really dependent on authority figures, and I still have difficulty denying requests and orders from my family and from others. It takes a conscious effort on my part to question authority in any form. I'm getting better in my adult years, but the process has been slow.

Water4Gold Report

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19points

Ace 1 year ago

"Elephant in the room" LOL.

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#48

My parents never let me look at people kissing on tv when i was a kid. Not sure what they were trying to teach me but i guess i should thank them for my adult awkwardness in PDA situations including my own.

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T. Brown 1 year ago

My mom would make a loud sound everytime there was a curse word on tv..

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#49

No drumming on the plates with my spoon and fork while waiting for the food to get ready. My dad said it summoned demons. My six-year-old self was terrified. Turns out my dad was just an irritable person. (Grew up to be like him, haha.)

scrotumspaghetti Report

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17points

Almarako94 1 year ago

Drumming with spoon and fork on a plate, you just were a noisy little s**t and he taught you not to be.

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#50

My parents had a perfect house and yard. I mean PERFECT. Everyone in the family spent hours to create this perfection. We had a lot of pine trees too. Huge, mature, 40-year-old pine trees. About 15 of them. However, pine cones were not allowed. There was to be no pine cones under the pine trees. It was one of my jobs to make sure that I scooted under these trees and picked up all the pine cones about every weekend in the spring, summer, and fall. It was usually done when we mowed the lawn and did the trimming. I specifically bought a house with no pine trees because it gives me flashbacks.

Final score:

17points

FeelingFrisky 1 year ago

Maybe pinecones damaged the mower blades?

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#51

Once you get home from school, you don't go out. It's been like that until I moved out the summer after high school ended. My mom just never allowed it or did it herself, once she got home from work she wouldn't go out to buy anything, ever, no matter how much one of us needed it (New calculator, lined paper...). She'd go buy it before coming home after work the next day. We'd buy ALL our food on Saturday, hundreds of dollars of it, and wouldn't buy a thing during the week. We never had friends outside of school because of that. I still have a really hard time with the dynamic of simply meeting people outside of work/school where we all have to be.

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17points

TheNightOwl 1 year ago

How do any of us meet anybody outside of where we are required to be?

3points

#52

Working from sunup to sundown every weekend. Coming home from football practice and working until you couldn't see. Dad didn't like spending money, even though he had plenty. We grew our own food, or hunted it. I didn't eat beef until I was 18 and in college. My dad made six figures, but still drove a car he had from 1987. It was just me and my dad, remodeling the house from sunup to sundown every day in the summer, while all my friends were at the lake. I'm still not good at having friends, but I know how to work hard.

Desmortius Report

Final score:

17points

Almarako94 1 year ago

You probably know how to destroy your body before you're 30 and not how to work hard. My dad always used me and my brother as cheap workers to renovate his house. He let us work as hard as for us possible. He took care we have no friends and once my parents divorced we were his working crew every saturday. The worst thing about it he manipulated us to have fun and be happy to help. The result is that since i'm 20 my back is in a critical state, any harder movement and i'll be bound to wheelchair for the rest of my life. Thanks Dad.

11points

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#53

Kids may not talk back to adults and adults are always right. Meaning when an adult tells you to do something you have to do it without question.

When an adult f.e. says something you know is a myth you have to act like you didnt hear it or its true because otherwise you get massive s**t on like "Yeah, that may be right, but we are adults and a little brat like you won't talk back to an adult little brats have to shut up!"

Or when adults came to dinner you had to sit on the table and eat with them but had to be silent all the time. Everyone was talking but when you tried to get a conversation LIKE EVERYONE ELSE you get reprimanded that your just a brat and have to shut up when adults are talking.

I was 'allowed' to 'take part in conversation' when I was asked a question.

Like "Blablabla, 457kthnx is really good in school, right 457kthnx? "Yes, thats true" "What grades do you have" "As and Bs" "He's best in class. blablablabla [I had to be silent again for when they continued and they talked long]".

The thing is I wasn't really 'allowed' to answer the question. That was just an euphemism for an order. I had to. It was more like your military sergeant from 1960 asking you something. That also wasnt a conversation. It wasnt enyoable.

Still haunts me as an adult. I never was that good at making friends in elementary school and after elementary school when you needed social skills to have friends and not just a game or a football I lost my old friends and never got new ones.

Final score:

16points

Almarako94 1 year ago

I can relate had a quiet similar childhood.

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#54

We had so many. For example, if we have the coughs, we weren't allowed to go inside the house unless all the phlegm is out of our system (supposedly).
Also, if I lick my lips in public (without covering it with my hands), it means I'm initiating a kiss from someone.
Also, no playing with our toys unless we drink about half a gallon of water.

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Almarako94 1 year ago

Don't know how many liters half a gallon are but drinking enough warer is very important.

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#55

For the longest time, my mother made sure I couldn't watch any movies with anything remotely sexual or 'scary'.

For example, if there was any kind of kissing, cuddling or foreplay in a movie, she'd come charging in, demand I look away, and basically taught me to shun all things sexual.

Another time, she freaked out when my friend's dad said we were watching Tremors, which was PG13, and we were 12. If anything, my friend and I felt like total badasses going to see 14A movies at age 12.

But most of all, for years, she was very adamant that I could NEVER see The Hills Have Eyes. She eventually relented on some other horror movies, even watched Alien with me, but that was the one I could never see. She straight up told me I wouldn't know that it was just a movie, and I'd end up with long-term damage.

Eventually, I watched it through the power of the internet, and you know what? I survived, and I thought it was great, if you like horror. And the look of defeat when I told her I had seen the movie was hilarious. Eventually, she gave up.

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Leoninus Fate 1 year ago

haha, my uncle once told me when i was like 8 to not watch "nightmare before Christmas" cause it was super messed, up and scary {my uncle was a meat head, gym rat, looked like a wrestler{Goldberg close i swear} on steroid back then, but hes a good family man now tho} and when i finally watched it at like 15 , it turned out the reason it was "super messed, up and scary" cause he was scared of "puppets&dolls" and thats what the characters were too much like lol

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#56

No drinking while eating your meal. You are only allowed to drink before or after eating dinner. They thought it was unhealthy for some reason.

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MacToast 1 year ago

OMG! My grandparents had this rule of no drinks while eating, and I have a really fond memory of my mom telling off my gma, who was visiting for a week, saying "my girls are allowed a drink with meals, this is my house, they're my kids and I always hated that rule!"

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#57

My parents never took me out to dinner ever. Not exaggerating at all. In my 18 years living with them, we did not eat out even once.

The habit was to have 3 meals at home. Even when I was older (in highschool) and deliberately went out with friends, they still compelled me to eat 3 meals everyday at home. When I got home there was my share on the table and I had to finish all of it no matter what.

That meant I had to hold back when I went out with friends, the reason was always "I cannot skip dinner, sorry, you guys go on without me." As a teenager that was a very lame thing to say, or so I thought.

aloneghost Report

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14points

FeelingFrisky 1 year ago

You went home from school to eat lunch then?

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#58

My mom let me watch Southpark, R rated movies, all sorts of vulgar s**t...

But I wasn't allowed to watch Maury or Rescue 911.... because they profited from exploiting other people's negative circumstances.

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14points

Another Fool on the Hill 1 year ago

That makes actually sense to me.

23points

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#59

We weren't allowed beef products for the longest time as kids. Parents were scared of the mad cow disease epidemic.

Final score:

14points

T. Brown 1 year ago

God forbid someone buys you a corona...

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#60

Last one in locks the house up.

It seemed logical then, but if someone was out till 3 AM, the rest of the family was sleeping in an unlocked house. I wouldn't dream of doing that now.

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14points

Almarako94 1 year ago

Depending on where you live it's quiet important to get in quiet fast rather than keeping unwanted visitor out. Like in Alaska you're not allowed to lock car in case someone needs to hide from a polar bear.

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#61

In my household we never got a shower before 8:00pm. We always took showers at or around night time; nobody would take morning showers either, always the night before. No idea why we did this.

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14points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Showering at night is more rational as you do not put a dirty sweaty body into bed. Then, in the morning, the only dirt on you is the sweat from during the night, if applicable. Vice versa, if you don't shower at night you dirty the bed, wake up dirty, and have to change the bedlinen as well as go shower. It makes no sense.

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#62

If you get beaten at school and don't fight back, you get another one at home.

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13points

Another Fool on the Hill 1 year ago

Wow. That's just cruel. And child abuse.

18points

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#63

T-shirts absolutely couldn't be inside out when doing laundry. My mother was always pissed off when she found one, as if it makes any difference, there were no prints on the shirts. I now wash all my t-shirts inside out because it actually makes a difference with all the prints I have. Also, that'll show her. I often think back to this stupid rule when hanging them out to dry. Inside out of course.

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FeelingFrisky 1 year ago

Maybe she doesn't appreciate folding inside out clothing? I taught my son to put his clothes in the bin right side out.

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#64

I couldn't shower before 7am or after 9pm which, in high school, made it virtually impossible to shower at home. I had to be to school before 7 and usually I got home and had to eat dinner and wash dishes So I always used the locker room.

Lafemmefatale25 Report

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13points

Morgan️ 1 year ago

That is evil

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#65

If any family member or any person in general asked me a question about my mom I was only allowed to answer with "that's a big people question, you should ask her."

Final score:

12points

Almarako94 1 year ago

She protected herself from you telling wierd stuff about your mom. I have to keep that in mind for once i have children.

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#66

They made my brother and me switch bunk beds at the beginning of every month, even though I liked the bottom and he preferred the top.

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12points

John Dilligaf 1 year ago

trying to be "fair" I guess?

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#67

my father didn't allow me to cut my hair short nor dye it until I was 18. I wasn't allowed to shave till I was 14. I wasn't allowed to wear makeup or paint my nails until I was 15. To this day I am not allowed to sleep over anyone else's home.

virylove Report

Final score:

11points

Almarako94 1 year ago

Guess you are older than 18. Move out. Now.

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#68

For a good part of my youth my mom wouldnt let me buy or play with lego. She thought its "not good for creativity" we lol'd a few years later at it.

Final score:

11points

FeelingFrisky 1 year ago

In truth, she knew you would leave them on the floor and she didn't want to step on them. Smart mom. Lol.

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#69

"you don't get something if you ask for it"

This is something my Mum would say to me when I asked for something while we were shopping. It didn't make sense when I was six, doesn't make any more sense when I'm 17 (maybe it will in a few years?)

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10points

FeelingFrisky 1 year ago

Nah.... I don't think that's ever going to make sense.

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#70

I wasn't allowed to watch Catdog.

Apparently it was deemed too stupid.

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10points

T. Brown 1 year ago

What about Cow and Chicken???

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#71

My parents didn't let me watch the cartoons and shows that are now beloved pop culture staples of the 90s. I have never watched most of the classic 90s shows, or I didn't watch them until I was in my teens.

My parents weren't religious - they were "intellectualists". They thought that exposure to Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Pokemon, et cetera, would lead to me flipping burgers at age 45. I didn't see an episode of SpongeBob until I was fourteen, and that was because my German teacher showed it in class. My parents got really, really mad at me when I wanted to start collecting Pokemon cards and borrowed Pokemon books from the library. I remember my grandma scoffing at me and saying "Oh no, really? There was nothing better?" when I was reading a Pokemon chapter book.

The only cartoons I was allowed to watch were cartoons shown on PBS or WETA kids. Sagwa, Arthur, Clifford, Between the Lions, et cetera.

When I was in middle school my little brother got a Pokemon game for Christmas from a relative, and then I bought myself the matching game (Diamond and Pearl). I guess at that point my parents gave up, because we were then allowed to watch the shows we wanted and talk about Pokemon (with some exceptions: Adventure Time and Regular Show were not permitted when my mother was in the room).

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10points

Con O Cuinn 1 year ago

It's completely anti intellectual to not recognise the value of art in all its forms. For instance, Courage the Cowardly Dog won an Oscar. The whole point of Scooby Doo was to think critically. Depriving your kids of age appropriate art is stupid.

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#72

In my house it was always very taboo to take a shower at night.

Final score:

10points

Almarako94 1 year ago

It's loud

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#73

Not allowed to touch electronic devices Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday. To keep us focused on school? Yeah I don't get it either. Now I'm obsessed with phones and video games

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10points

Monday 1 year ago

That'll happen! I didn't have a phone or computer until my mid teens and I didn't get internet access until 18. Guess who spends most of their free time playing online games.

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#74

When stirring a glass (adding sugar to tea, chocolate to milk, etc) NEVER LET THE SPOON CLINK AGAINST THE SIDE. ITS LOUD AND RUDE. There was no punishment involved or anything but I'd always get a stern "stir properly!" It was worse with the rest of my mom's side

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10points

OhBlahDi OhBlahDa 1 year ago

Your parents didn't want you to send anyone to the sunken place ;)

6points

#75

We were not allowed to sing at the dinner table.

I needed to be reminded nightly that this was the case. I guess when I was younger the music was just INSIDE of me, and I had to just SING.

TallMattBari Report

Final score:

10points

Lene 1 year ago

When I sang at the dinner table as a kid I would get a loud "THIS IS NOT A DISCO!" if I tried to say that I really liked that particular song I'd be told to sing it after dinner. Preferedly in my room.

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#76

I couldn't say the words "dumb", "stupid", or "hate". I'm 22, and my mother still says, "Justin! Don't say the S-word!"

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10points

Monday 1 year ago

I would be so tempted to respond "Oh come on mom, you know I hate that stupid rule! It's just dumb!"

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#77

Not allowed to go outside barefoot.

Ever.

Not even to stand on the front porch, check to see how the weather was, get the mail, anything. I had to have shoes on when I went outside even if it was just slippers or flip flops.

maddiemoiselle Report

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9points

Almarako94 1 year ago

Stopped walking barefoot outside after i once stepped on a wierd bug that let my foot grow into a ball.

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#78

My mom would scold me if I ever said "k" or if I said "like" in any way that wasn't it's original intended use. Basically if I sounded like a 14 year old

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9points

Ace 1 year ago

Good practice.

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#79

Mexican Americans follow crazy superstitions that somehow become rules. The strangest one that I still follow is not getting a haircut after a meal. I have no clue why it's bad but I still don't do it.

Final score:

9points

Penny Lost 1 year ago

I know some say you should shave on an empty stomach, but I've never heard of cutting hair on an empty stomach 🤔

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#80

We were only allowed to play computer games or SNES if it was nighttime or raining. Also, during summer we weren't to be in the house between lunch and dinner.

JeffreyGlen Report

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9points

Jason 1 year ago

I love video games still, but believe in balance. We have kind of the same rule in place. It rains daily at noon ish. Play/work outside until the rain then come relax inside and play some games

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#81

Half of my in-laws have a long standing rule that there is to be no liquid at the dinner tables except for gravy and there is no drinking during any meals. No water, no milk, no kool-aid, no tea, no beer, no liquor, NOTHING.

How they live with that i have no idea.

Final score:

9points

FeelingFrisky 1 year ago

No kool-aid? Lol

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#82

We weren't allowed to eat any food that came out of a can. My grandmother had some weird vendetta against the Jolly Green Giant.

Final score:

9points

TheQueenZ 1 year ago

"Vendetta against the jolly green giant" is now my favorite phrase.

8points

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#83

my mom also told me to never kiss a girl when the katy perry song "i kissed a girl" came out, so that'll forever be in my head

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Final score:

8points

Auntriarch 1 year ago

Nothing like giving people ideas

6points

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#84

I wasn't allowed to answer the front door. As a five or six year old, I get that I might not know a stranger from a friend or something but I'm legit turning 18 in less than a month and I'm still not allowed to answer the door, even if I see it's a friend or a neighbor standing outside.

Final score:

8points

FeelingFrisky 1 year ago

I wasn't allowed to answer the phone, either.

5points

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#85

My family is from South Africa & my dad always had this rule about not whistling at night. He would never explain why nobody was allowed & it used to scare the shit out of me when I was younger.

I'm 19 now living alone & to this day if I'm out with friends or at a concert & somebody starts whistling I get tense & I can't really explain why to anybody without sounding insane

Final score:

8points

robbyt34 1 year ago

Cape Town here - It's a general African superstition that if you whistle after dark you are summoning evil spirits. Which one depends on where exactly in Africa you are. It's also a superstition in parts of Korea and China.

16points

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#86

I cannot join my 1 year older brother in playing video game outside the house. (He is 10 and I'm 9) Then when I turned 10, I still can't. Like hey mom! I can't beat my brother's age!

EDIT for clarification : Outside the house = Internet cafe

Final score:

6points

Helena 1 year ago

Mom was probably an older sibling growing up and knows the pain of having to take younger siblings everywhere with you. Tried to spare her oldest.

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Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

Some people shouldn't have kids

12points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

There should be more testing for having children than having cars. Just a thought.

11points

Rens 1 year ago

Most of the stupid rules that I had growing up her to do with the fact that my (late) stepfather was a pervert with a disgusting and disturbing interest in underage teen girls. The day he died was one of the best days of my life.

8points

Stardust she/her 1 year ago

My mom wanted me to look at the sun everyday in the morning for 5 minutes. Her logic was that I’d absorb the sun’s energy and become more powerful. My eyes ended up watering because the morning sun doesn’t suit me for some reason so she gave up

6points

Lady Luna 1 year ago

She thought you were Superman or something?

5points

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Littlemiss 1 year ago (edited)

My mother insisted that we were poor and having 2nd hand clothes was a must (only applied to me and never my siblings) So I always had skin tight school uniforms that would leave welts under my armpits and school shoes full of holes - but she was allowed a $4,500 lounge suite. The rule was she got to buy anything and if I asked I was a b*tch. Also I was short, fat and dumpy so I wasn't allowed fashionable clothes because I didn't have the body for it.

5points

Mark Kelly 1 year ago

Makes me realize how normal my parents were. I can't think of any weirdo and reasonable, they were all very reasonable. We had reasonable curfews, we could cut our hair, take regular showers but of course not super long like half an hour, eat pretty much what we want, could date any race. My brother had a black girlfriend and my parents didn't mind she was at our place and we're white.

5points

TM 1 year ago

Same here. Somehow disturbing to read these peoples’ “habits” up there.

2points

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Barbara Wilson 1 year ago (edited)

Girls can’t wear black. I wasn’t allowed to turn heat (baseboard heater) on in my bedroom. The rest of the house was heated with forced air.

4points

John Dilligaf 1 year ago

not me but my friends growing up. They could not call their parents Mom or Dad. It was always Mr Smith or Ms Smith. Like " I can't come out to play right now, Mr Smith says I have to help him clean out the garage" or "Ms Smith can you sign my permission slip for the school trip tomorrow?"

4points

Mimi777 1 year ago

Sounds like they had a superiority complex.

2points

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Lara Verne 1 year ago

My mom has strange belief - If you have a food craving, and eat thing you were craving, you gonna throw up. So as a kid, when I said I wanted some food, I wasn't allowed to eat this specific food and had to eat something else. Like every nausea must be caused by eating something you were craving.

4points

Rider 1 year ago

If it wasn't one of the 3 Bs, don't bother mom. Broken, Bleeding profusely, or Barfing. She was a shift nurse, weird sleep hours.

3points

Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

My sister and I have often talked about what a great childhood we enjoyed---neither of our brothers are in the picture any longer, but there are two (now men) between her and me (I'm the oldest of four)---and how much fun we had so much of the time. Mom and Dad had basic rules, of course, and we had to obey them, but there weren't any weird ones like "no sitting on your bed," or any of the other ones in this post. Our parents had good, solid heads on their shoulders, and both were intelligent, reasonable, as well as artistic, people. We were all strongly encouraged to read (we had over 6,000 books in the house at any given time, as well as loads of good magazines such as Popular Mechanics, Better Homes and Gardens, so we could always have something from which to learn outside of school stuff), to go out and play---although I usually would sit under or way up in the branches of, our huge maple tree and read, read, read. I love to read! Our parents were truly good people!

1point

Via Hawk 1 year ago

One time my mom took me to get my hair dyed, we weren't done till two in the morning. Next day I was tired of course. She punished me for being tired by taking away my music privleges and clock privleges

0points

rodger coghlan 1 year ago

(**Do you feel left out that you do not have diacritical marks in your name??:)

0points

Matthew Smith 1 year ago

That's just in america.

-3points

F C 1 year ago

Nope

1point

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Bernd Herbert 1 year ago

Some people shouldn't have kids

12points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

There should be more testing for having children than having cars. Just a thought.

11points

Rens 1 year ago

Most of the stupid rules that I had growing up her to do with the fact that my (late) stepfather was a pervert with a disgusting and disturbing interest in underage teen girls. The day he died was one of the best days of my life.

8points

Stardust she/her 1 year ago

My mom wanted me to look at the sun everyday in the morning for 5 minutes. Her logic was that I’d absorb the sun’s energy and become more powerful. My eyes ended up watering because the morning sun doesn’t suit me for some reason so she gave up

6points

Lady Luna 1 year ago

She thought you were Superman or something?

5points

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Littlemiss 1 year ago (edited)

My mother insisted that we were poor and having 2nd hand clothes was a must (only applied to me and never my siblings) So I always had skin tight school uniforms that would leave welts under my armpits and school shoes full of holes - but she was allowed a $4,500 lounge suite. The rule was she got to buy anything and if I asked I was a b*tch. Also I was short, fat and dumpy so I wasn't allowed fashionable clothes because I didn't have the body for it.

5points

Mark Kelly 1 year ago

Makes me realize how normal my parents were. I can't think of any weirdo and reasonable, they were all very reasonable. We had reasonable curfews, we could cut our hair, take regular showers but of course not super long like half an hour, eat pretty much what we want, could date any race. My brother had a black girlfriend and my parents didn't mind she was at our place and we're white.

5points

TM 1 year ago

Same here. Somehow disturbing to read these peoples’ “habits” up there.

2points

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Barbara Wilson 1 year ago (edited)

Girls can’t wear black. I wasn’t allowed to turn heat (baseboard heater) on in my bedroom. The rest of the house was heated with forced air.

4points

John Dilligaf 1 year ago

not me but my friends growing up. They could not call their parents Mom or Dad. It was always Mr Smith or Ms Smith. Like " I can't come out to play right now, Mr Smith says I have to help him clean out the garage" or "Ms Smith can you sign my permission slip for the school trip tomorrow?"

4points

Mimi777 1 year ago

Sounds like they had a superiority complex.

2points

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Lara Verne 1 year ago

My mom has strange belief - If you have a food craving, and eat thing you were craving, you gonna throw up. So as a kid, when I said I wanted some food, I wasn't allowed to eat this specific food and had to eat something else. Like every nausea must be caused by eating something you were craving.

4points

Rider 1 year ago

If it wasn't one of the 3 Bs, don't bother mom. Broken, Bleeding profusely, or Barfing. She was a shift nurse, weird sleep hours.

3points

Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

My sister and I have often talked about what a great childhood we enjoyed---neither of our brothers are in the picture any longer, but there are two (now men) between her and me (I'm the oldest of four)---and how much fun we had so much of the time. Mom and Dad had basic rules, of course, and we had to obey them, but there weren't any weird ones like "no sitting on your bed," or any of the other ones in this post. Our parents had good, solid heads on their shoulders, and both were intelligent, reasonable, as well as artistic, people. We were all strongly encouraged to read (we had over 6,000 books in the house at any given time, as well as loads of good magazines such as Popular Mechanics, Better Homes and Gardens, so we could always have something from which to learn outside of school stuff), to go out and play---although I usually would sit under or way up in the branches of, our huge maple tree and read, read, read. I love to read! Our parents were truly good people!

1point

Via Hawk 1 year ago

One time my mom took me to get my hair dyed, we weren't done till two in the morning. Next day I was tired of course. She punished me for being tired by taking away my music privleges and clock privleges

0points

rodger coghlan 1 year ago

(**Do you feel left out that you do not have diacritical marks in your name??:)

0points

Matthew Smith 1 year ago

That's just in america.

-3points

F C 1 year ago

Nope

1point

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