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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GunsToy guns were banned, even if we made them ourselves out of paper. They were banned at school too, even if made out of multilink. So when I bought my little brother a policeman's kit for his birthday, I was forced to open the pack, remove the little gun and individually wrap the handcuffs, truncheon, badge, etc. That's right, it's okay to play at clubbing people, stabbing them with swords, tying them up, handcuffing them to things, etc, but not to pretend to shoot each other. Still undecided on this one. But how come my little brothers got toy space ray guns a few years later?
Thinking about it, they were very protective of our fragile little minds (no ITV, no news, no toy guns), but relatively relaxed about our bodies. So I walked the 20 minutes home from school alone from the age of 7, I used to catch the bus to and from town for a shopping trip with just my sister when we must have been about 6 and 10, etc.
Oh, James Tiger Woods, I feel your pain, but that was your parents, not the Catholicism. I too was raised Catholic, even attending a Catholic primary school for a while, and I never met the attitude and strictness you did. You're not a Flynn are you?
(, Fri 9 Mar 2007, 14:36, Reply)
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