‘Did anyone else’s parents have really strict rules about random stuff?’ – 23 household laws that will make your own family seem positively normal

13.

‘I wasn’t allowed to hang out in my room in the evening. Once my homework was done, I had to come downstairs and watch TV with everyone else. I got very good at reading books in front of the telly.’
–enthusiasticsqu1rrel

14.

‘My mum was a teacher and we were not allowed to watch Grange Hill. She said it wasn’t realistic because in GH all the kids were being naughty one at a time, whereas in real life they are all at it constantly.’
–ThierryMercury

15.

‘My mum banned the word ‘fart’ and told us to say ‘busy bum’. I genuinely believed this was the polite way of saying fart for years.’
–Cherryredridinghood

16.

‘After dinner, before we had any junk food, we first had to eat a piece of fruit and a yoghurt to prove we were “genuinely hungry”. Then we could have one bag of crisps, then one chocolate bar, then one ice cream…

I guess the rule was to make us fill up on healthier stuff before junk, but it didn’t work as me and my sister ate everything that wasn’t nailed to the ceiling.’
–pompompurindog

17.

‘Once I grew out of the stage where I called my mum “mummy”, I was informed that I wasn’t allowed to call her “mum” because she thought it was common. I didn’t even grow up posh – I think she just wanted to be a different and special working class family.

I asked what I was supposed to call her instead, she said she didn’t know, so I just took the last letter off and called her “muh” till the day she died.’
–arpeggio-paleggio

18.

‘Wasn’t allowed to watch Peppa Pig because it was too “childish”. I was 4.’
–xxhamsters12

19.

‘We were not allowed to touch or move the curtains in anyway. They were decorative curtains only and any movement to them was as punishable as treason to the Crown.’
–iMatthew1990

20.

‘Don’t really understand why but we weren’t allowed a drink at dinner. Could drink as much as we wanted before or after but just not whilst eating.’
–Justboy__

21.

‘My dad wouldn’t let us use thumbtacks to put up posters because he thought they’d fall out in the night and stab us in the eye.’
–Character-Pangolin66

22.

‘Not my mum, but a friend’s mum made him open the window in his bedroom when playing video games to ‘let the radiation out’.’
–joe_ivo

23.

‘Not being allowed to sit on the stairs, for no reason whatsoever. Not even to put on shoes. Never found out why, not even allowed to ask about it.’
–MrGnu

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