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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another one!I think this QOTW is awaking all sorts of repressed memories in me...
Mother boxed my ears quite frequently for not tidying my room to her impossibly high standards. To be fair, I was a little slob.
She once washed my mouth out with soap for swearing. Again, to be fair, I have the foulest language known to anyone who's not in the navy. But swearing is big, and it is clever, so I'm not going to stop.
My parents, after I passed my 5th birthday, insisted I stopped calling them "mummy" and "daddy", because it was childish. Was I allowed to call them "mum" or "dad"? No, because apparently that was common, and "mother" and "father" were too formal (which might give their friends the impression that we weren't a loving and friendly family - which, in fact we are. Just eccentric). So I had to call them by their first names. Imagine a little girl saying "Mary and Joseph* will be picking me up from school soon" to her little schoolfriends, and Mary and Joseph turning out to be her parents. No wonder I was bullied as a child.
*names have been changed for reasons of anonymity.
(, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 16:20, Reply)
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