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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Not our MumBut one of my primary school teachers. Mental woman spent half a term trying to convince my mother that it was bad for her darling daughter to read horror books.
To explain; at the age of 10/11 in our school we had to read a book a week and keep a diary of what we'd read for them to monitor us. Now while I was reading shitty point!Horror books that one might object to on grounds of linguistic merit/them being pish, I was also reading classic horror (think Frankenstein and Heart of darkness) which is about as frightening as a mouldy sock. Morbid child that I was, it wasn't like I was sacrificing goats in class.
This resulted in letters, meetings with my mother to check that it was acceptable, and then still acceptable half a year later, and wasn't she worried about the undue influence they might have on a developing mind.
Now while my Mum just laughed, I do wonder how many parents she managed to convince that their offspring were being warped by the evil books written about vampires and zombies.
I wonder what the mad bint makes of emos.
(, Thu 15 Mar 2007, 8:29, Reply)
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