I don’t mean anything that might be considered abuse or trauma; just some random rule that seemed fine to you at the time, but looking back now realize it was not quite the norm.
For example, at our house, we were not allowed to say “dang it” because it was “too close to swearing”. We were also not allowed to walk on the front lawn because my dad didn’t want us messing up the lines he’d mowed into the grass. As teenagers, if we borrowed money from our parents, they would charge us interest on the repayment at whatever the going rate was at the bank.
Is anything quirky going on at your house?
#21
We weren't allowed to flush our toilet paper because it could clog the septic tank. Instead the used paper was thrown into special waste baskets which my brothers and I had to collect and merge with our other organic trash. Makes me gag just thinking about it.
4points
#22
We were 5 kids and had to re-use each other bathwater. Only when it was cold, we could let a bit out and add a bit hot.
Hated it when I got into my teens. Just disgusting.
My dad took a Bath every day and he didn't had that rules.
Hated it when I got into my teens. Just disgusting.
My dad took a Bath every day and he didn't had that rules.
4points
#23
Once breakfast was eaten, we had to clear the table, wash up, dry put away then clean the table, then repeat at lunch and dinner time on a Sunday, if there were leftovers, we got supper if not we went without.
3points
#24
No devices. I used to have "Device " Time", (AKA a few hours on my computer while my mom breathes down my neck.) But my parents almost never give me any time on devices anymore. In fact, I'm writing this on my kindle now, without my moms permission! Also, I can't have a phone until I'm 16, or say words like God, Hell, Stupid, Dumb, and she gives me an "Allowance", but the money goes straight into her bank account. Once I got $100 for my birthday, and she took it from me, and I never got to spend it. Everyone we were at a store, and I asked to buy some this with MY $100 dollars, my Mom would say it " wasn't a toy buying trip."
3points
#25
No listening to worldly music because the demons are attracted to it
No Christmas, Easter, birthdays ECT.
No friends who are worldly
No fashionable clothes
Prayer before every meal even if it's just a snack.
No boyfriends
No higher education allowed until you live under my roof.
No Christmas, Easter, birthdays ECT.
No friends who are worldly
No fashionable clothes
Prayer before every meal even if it's just a snack.
No boyfriends
No higher education allowed until you live under my roof.
Yep it's just a few I could write a book about it
Welcome to the world JW.
Welcome to the world JW.
3points
#26
Always get permission from parents from both parties before hanging out, parent must meet friend’s parents before hanging out. ASL (age, sex, location).
2points
#27
We always had to be quiet during the weather. It always came on during dinner, and my grandpa would pick up the remote and turn up the volume. That was everyone's cue to stop talking. Mid-sentence conversations would just stop. Then when it was over, he would turn the volume back down and normal conversation would resume.
2points
#28
When I was little, my sister and I were banned from whistling around my dad. He's an immigrant and he said that back home, he used to get spankings for whistling around his elders because it was "rude." To this day, I have never heard anything like that, but it could have also been that my dad was just annoyed that we were whistling.
We were also never allowed to have sleep overs; that meant no one sleeping over at our house and we couldn't sleep over at anyone else's house. I understand that one now that I'm older.
I also didn't get a phone until the end of my freshman year of high school. My parents were always against screen time and we were often not allowed to use the family TV during weekdays. My parents' reasoning was that I would become: "depressed," "lazy," and "irritable." All of my classmates had phones in middle school, so it was hard getting through my first year of high school without any way to connect with them. My parents are still against me having a phone (I'm a teenager), but after I pointed out that THEY ARE THE ONES ALWAYS GLUED TO THEIR SCREENS, they agreed to sign an actual contract for the usage of my phone.
Me and my siblings also didn't have doors on our rooms until I was 11 and my sister was 9. My parents did this so that we couldn't "sneak things" into our rooms.
1point
#29
Not super strange, but super annoying. My friends definitely thought it was weird, though.
Sleep-overs had a 10pm lights out rule, as my mom would want quiet and not hear us past 10pm. She was mean about it, too.
Sleep-overs had a 10pm lights out rule, as my mom would want quiet and not hear us past 10pm. She was mean about it, too.
At my dad's and step-mom's, the rules got weirder.
I wasn't allowed to watch You Can't Do That On Television, nor The Addams Family.
Punishments for being a kid, having kid accidents, included humiliation in front of the family, smacks and being sent to the corner. I never got that at my mom's.
Everything piled on your plate had to be eaten, regardless how full you were. If you didn't, you were punished.
Rules were sort of made up as she went along. Me and my step-bro used to always sit on the floor, watching TV and play Nintendo. 10 years later my step-mom is scolding my half brother for sitting on the floor because "that's where feet go".
1point
#30
We always had to be quiet during the weather. It always came on during dinner, and my grandpa would pick up the remote and turn up the volume. That was everyone's cue to stop talking. Mid-sentence conversations would just stop. Then when it was over, he would turn the volume back down and normal conversation would resume.
0points