The majority of parents establish explicit guidelines to help their children learn responsibility and discipline while preparing them for adulthood. However, excessively stringent curfews,
Media restrictions, buddy interactions, etc., limit children’s exposure to social cues that help mold them. Additionally, putting them in a certain safety net teaches them that it is not appropriate.
To take chances or break free from restraints. Let’s look at 17 instances of very severe regulations that continue to have an impact on kids decades later.
Because we may damage the bed, we were not permitted to sit on its edge. We risk wearing out the sofa if we sit on the floor with our legs straight and our backs against it.
To avoid wearing out the knees of our jeans, we must sit on it with our legs straight. Unless you were expressly requested to retrieve something, you were not allowed in the formal dining room.
Only the rear entrance was open to us; the front door was off limits. When Dad comes home, don’t run, laugh, speak loudly, or dump anything on the ground.
Unless you pooped, flush the toilet after three persons have left. Also, avoid using a lot of toilet paper since this might clog the toilet. Quora/@E Marie Dee-Campbell
When we were in bed, my sister and I were not permitted to move. We were forced to sleep with our arms by our sides on our stomachs.
In order to avoid “messing the bed,” we were not allowed to turn over or sleep on our sides. We were also forbidden to sit on the furniture when we were little.
Quora/@Pat Guarnero If you’re thirsty, you shouldn’t drink water since too much will make your tummy bloat and you’ll gain weight. Reddit/@stupidmortadella My bedtime was usually 9:30 PM from the time.
I was twelve until I moved out after graduation. There is no if, and, or but to it. It was time to go upstairs to bed by the time the team with the opening kickoff scored or punted.
To the other side, so there was no use in becoming very engrossed in the Monday Night Football broadcast at 9 PM. As I grew older, or at least during the summer months.
When there was no school timetable, I assumed that this would change. Not at all. As before, lights must be down by 9:30 p.m. Quora/@Alan Ford
When I was younger, mealtime was one of the most stringent regulations. As my folks used to say, “Wear it if you don’t eat it.” I usually stayed at the table for hours until I finished eating everything,
but I would sometimes get up and toss my food directly over my head. Jonathan Quora and Daniel Edwards When we were little, we were only permitted to get out of bed.
To use the restroom at 8 a.m. on Saturdays. We were able to read. It was forbidden for us to switch on the television ourselves. The time for dinner has to be 5:30.
It wasn’t dinnertime soda pop. It has to be coffee, tea, or milk. Every female had to wear a dress whenever we went out. Quora/@Nancy Hooven
I had more than $3K saved at the age of 16, but my “father,” who I call “The Tormentor,” would never let me get a car so I could commute to work.
Knowing that it would be my “getaway vehicle,” he declined. The same was true with mobile phones, which were first introduced when I was a child.
Growing up in a remote location, I was a young lady. Everyone around me enjoyed “controlling” others around them, so I realized I had to go. Quora/@Lii
We were not permitted to express grief or anger, nor were we permitted to laugh or smile without authorization. “You ask how high when I say jump,” was one of her favorite quotes.
There was also the statement, “Yours is to do or die, not to question why.” Yes, she had to have complete control over us at all times.
Unless she was taking photographs or otherwise showcasing us, we were not permitted to laugh or grin. In our flawlessly posed childhood pictures, we all wore these phony grins.
Quora/@Harley Brock I would often hear a loud pounding on the door when I was sitting in the bathtub with the water running and someone would ask,
“What do you think you’re doing? Attempting to fill a lake? My father could determine how much water was in the tub just by listening to the sound of the water flowing.
He wanted all baths to be taken with very little water since he didn’t want us to use too much. I still find it difficult to fill a tub to overflowing. Quora/@Laura Gustafson.
Regardless of what I did or didn’t do, say, or behave, I was continuously being shouted at and punished for breaking the rules since they were continually changing them. Reddit/@iHo4Iroh
Whenever I received money on my birthday or Christmas, it was taken away right away. When I had my own bank account, it stopped since.
I could go to the bank and deposit the money on my own and no one could do anything about it. During daylight saving time, I was not permitted to go outdoors.
After supper and had to be indoors by six every night. If there was anything my parents didn’t like about my attire, I had to change even if I wanted to keep what I was wearing.
For instance, even though my peers my age wore denim to church, my mother detested me for doing so. Quora/@Anne Freeman I sometimes recall at random how, when I was a little girl,
My mother forbade me from getting a haircut. Funny enough, Mom let me color my hair blue at the age of 12 or 13 but forbade haircuts so that I wouldn’t have “short hair like a boy.”
I was not permitted to shave my legs or apply cosmetics while I was in middle school. Because I couldn’t shave my legs, cruel youngsters dubbed me “horse legs” in gym class,
Which made me feel very ashamed. I recall pleading with my mother to let me use her razor, even though I no longer even want to shave my legs.
She constantly said that I was attempting to act like an adult and that shaving was just for adults. Reddit/@bagagwa I used a pen to draw on my hand in fourth grade. I sketched some happy faces and a flower.
My father went insane. When I was only eight years old, he began yelling at me, saying that since I had written on my hand, I would want tattoos when I was older.
The entire situation turned into him wishing that I would flee so he wouldn’t see me again and that I would get pregnant as a teenager.
Just because I drew on my hand, literally? Reddit/@That-Dimension-7093 Among my many regulations, these were the most absurd:
The sofa was off-limits to our feet. Grandma forbade my brother and I from sitting on her lap. On the few occasions that our dad took us out for ice cream,
We had to toss away ours if we didn’t eat it before he did. Because it was “bad for the computer,” we were not permitted to use the number pad on a keyboard. To stop me from using it,
He even broke off the Num Lock key. Reddit/@Cool_Beanz123 I was also teased at school since my mother wouldn’t purchase me a bra when I required a cup C. Reddit/@dam0na
My mother believed that I was attempting to appeal to males, therefore I was not allowed to wear red underwear. She stopped buying me underpants when I started dating my first man.
By buying underwear that my boyfriend would take off, she sexualized underwear for a juvenile, claiming she didn’t want to push me to go further with him.
Reddit and @coochers We wouldn’t want me to gain weight and get obese, therefore I was not permitted to prepare meals “without permission” or consume “sugar.”
Reddit/@Candid-Main4136 Sometimes children may outwit their parents and obtain what they want, regardless of how many severe restrictions.
They impose. Someone more than half your age performs the finest mind tricks and wins you over just when you believe you are the brightest person in the room.
