JellyBean said:

Some parents are strict with their own kids, but spoil their grand kids.

StillGotIt said:

OMG i peed myself a little! That was so funny!!

Horsefeathers said:

Sorry to hear that. That had to have been tough to grow up with parents like that.

Thank God you didn't adopt their ways.

peacenlovealways said:

because they don't have to deal with the consequences!

nothing stupid, but the summer after I had turned 18 and graduated high school, I made the mistake of actually asking if I could go over to a friend's house at midnight to hang out and was told no and threw a fit. I have no idea what I was thinking even asking. old enough to do it without asking, but not even realizing it.

* I could only leave my yard to play every other day for two hours. If I was late returning, even five minutes, I had to wait three days before I could leave again.

* Until he was about 10, I had a standing one-hour 4 p.m. play date with my brother... no matter where I was or what I was doing.

* My mother once bought me a Jr. Planetarium (a little toy projector that shown a duplicate of the night sky onto my bedroom sealing). She never let me use it, though, because she said I'd break it.





I'm gonna stop there as this is pissing me off.
[Edited 11/5/09 5:21am]

Lammastide said:

Its ok... My parents did weird stupid hurtful shit too that i didnt put down here cuz I get pissed as well!... Its over now

* I could only leave my yard to play every other day for two hours. If I was late returning, even five minutes, I had to wait three days before I could leave again.

* Until he was about 10, I had a standing one-hour 4 p.m. play date with my brother... no matter where I was or what I was doing.

* My mother once bought me a Jr. Planetarium (a little toy projector that shown a duplicate of the northern night sky onto my bedroom ceiling). She never let me use it, though, because she said I'd break it.





I'm gonna stop there as this is pissing me off.
[Edited 11/5/09 5:26am]

darkangel7077 said:

Since you moved back home do you still have to obey these rules? I can't wait to move too.

Lammastide said:

wtf

No smoking weed IN the house... patio fine, just NOT INDOORS!

1 hour of tv during the week day; 2 hours on the weekends.

No pop (soda) until the weekend, but you could only have 1 can on Saturday!

During the summer, my sister and I had to read 200 books and write a book report on each one...every year, until we were 15 years old.

If we misbehaved, we had to write a letter of apology to the offended person. Stating why we did what we did and what we could have done to avoid the situation in the future. If you could not write or think of anything, you sat in the corner until you did.

errant said:

Exactly.

RenHoek said:

They let you smoke weed?

My mom never had a lot of rules, but one fucking nutty one that sticks out that to this day makes no sense at all to me:

No Simpsons.

Now, I know a lot of even the sanest, most liberal parents back in the late 80's/early 90's experienced that Bush-induced anti-Simpsons paranoia, so banning the show itself isn't what what was weird.

What was weird about it is that there were absolutely no other rules about what my sister and I could and could not watch. By the age of 10 I'd seen The Crow, Batman, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Silence of the Lambs, and the Ice Capades, along with a whole slew of other things most folk would not allow their kids to see.
[Edited 11/2/09 17:57pm]

Until I was 12 I was not allowed to wear panty hose, nail polish or sandals...too grown.

No music other than gospel on Sundays.

That's about it.