Strict ParentsI always thought my parents were quite strict, but I can't think of anything they actually banned me from doing, whereas a good friend was under no circumstances allowed to watch ITV because of the adverts.
This week's Time Out mentions some poor sod who was banned from sitting in the aisle seats at cinemas because, according to their mother, "drug dealers patrol the aisles, injecting people in the arm."
What were you banned from doing as a kid by loopy parents?
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chthonic, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 12:37)
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I did everything my parents forbade me- only years laterWhen I was about 11 I was into hardcore house music, like everyone was in Holland in 1996. So I desperately wanted a bomberjacket- like everyone in Holland wore in 1996. But my parents wouldn't buy me one as bomberjackets had 'something to do with the war'('it's nazi-ish'). If they had, instead, told me i would look like an utter chav with such a jacket, which is a 100% fact, I would not have bought one in 2005, after years of latent wrath. Never wore it.
I was also not allowed to do anything involving the suggestion of violence, fake weapons etc. Top Tip for parents: kids have to know toy guns and swords to know these are crap and boring after a while. Forbid these items, and face obsessive behaviour in adolescence.
It's all about phases- the forbidden items are the keys through phases of youth. True.
(, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 14:57, Reply)
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