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Did you have strange rules growing up?

I can sympathise with several of these stories. Getting dressed for breakfast. Strict bedtime. Asking permission to leave the table. No trousers or tights.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10486677/Parents-share-rules-given-childhood-bizarre.html
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AmmieBell · 18-21, F
My parents have a lot of really strict rules, like the ones you listed. But those are more strict I think, and probably the result of them having so many kids. Like I share a room with my younger siblings, so I have to go to bed at the same time as them so I don't wake them up.

The only strange rule I can think of is me and my siblings never being allowed to touch the TV remote. We got almost no screen time anyway, so I hardly noticed honestly. But it started because one of my toddler brothers went through a phase where they liked to rip off the buttons on the remote and chew on them. And then my parents just liked us never touching/losing/moving the remote, so we have just always known we can't touch it 😂 We have to ask permission to watch TV, and they scroll through the channels and and we can ask to watch something if we see something we like. At which point it becomes a group decision because it has for sure drawn the attention of several siblings and they now want to watch something, too.
MrsRachelEvans · 31-35, F
@AmmieBell bedtime makes a lot of sense. Mine was never later than 8pm usually.
AmmieBell · 18-21, F
@MrsRachelEvans 7:45 on weekdays 😂 The joys of living on a farm. We have morning chores before school, evening chores before dinner. Extra chores inside, and a whole chart dedicated to it. Good times 😂🙃
MrsRachelEvans · 31-35, F
@AmmieBell I had a chores chart as well! It also had demerits and consequences
ImJack · M
@MrsRachelEvans what were the consequences for too many demerits?
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@AmmieBell By the time there is a consensus on which show to watch, it has gone off the air.
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SeekingConnection · 61-69, M
@MrsRachelEvans It was the same for me until I was in about second or third year at high school. It used to infuriate me and cause me to really resent my parents when they wouldn't allow me to stay up and watch a TV programme that all my classmates at school were talking about. Now I wouldn't watch TV if you paid me! 🙂