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@Ginabean3: I've never heard about crab and iced water. But yeah my parents don't recommend anything cold in general. I was also not allowed water postpartum.
Our rules weren't that weird. We did have hot breakfast every day though. My parents made dinner EVERY night. Even if it meant us eating at 10pm because they get home late from work, thy would still cook.
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I had to call home and check with mom if I was at someone's house and we were going to watch a movie. I hated it, but I can see why she did it. I'm not sure if we'll do something like that with LO or not.
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Mostly normal rules, but we weren't allowed to watch Scooby Doo, because the characters were always running away from/scared of ghosts and monsters.
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@Emsmems: ahhhh I totally had to say "yes" or "yes please" at my house. My mom hated it when I answered "sure" for anything. I find that so strange! I don't see anything wrong with "sure".
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Hmmm. I'm not sure we had any really weird ones. CDs had to be kept in alphabetical order by artist, toilet seats were always down, I never had a curfew as a teenager but I had to go in my mom's room & give her a kiss whenever I got home- I think it was so she could smell me, I give her props on that one- genius! We didn't say hate either. We weren't allowed to point at someone, it was rude.
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@Dandelion: I couldn't watch PG-13 movies until I was 13 . . . I found this out when I asked to go see Pretty In Pink as a 12 year old . . . I was one of the youngest in my class, so all my (13 year old) friends could go.
My mom hated BH 90210 . . . she tried to make me have a 9 p.m. bedtime AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT! as a reason why I couldn't watch the show.
I also had a 10 p.m. curfew even as a senior in HS . . . with the exception being rare events like Homecoming--11 p.m.-- and Prom--12 p.m. My brother never had a curfew. It still pisses me off to this day - I was a really good kid!
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@mrs. bird: That is so smart of your mom! I might steal it, too. I didn't have a true curfew either as it changed depending on the situation/event but my parents totally put this giant bell on the inside of the front door handle so it would be VERY obvious when I got home.
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@DiamondEyes: I get a small glass of milk but i can only imagine how many gallons they would go through with 3 kids in the house. I always had milk at breakfast and when i bought lunch chocolate milk at school
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@MsLipGloss: I always had an earlier curfew than my brother, and I was a million times less a trouble maker than he was. I called my parents out on it and their only response was it's just different because you're a girl... they still don't see anything wrong with it to this day.
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Can't think of anything too weird.. but just this funny one: "no farting at the dinner table!". My brother always did the loudest farts during dinner, so my mom made this rule and said he had to fart he could excuse himself and go to the bathroom to do it.
Well the one time he actually did, he ran up from the table very dramatically and went into the bathroom right beside the kitchen, and with the door open did the loudest fart ever that then echoed out. It was the funniest thing ever and I'm laughing just typing it. That rule kind of backfired!! hahaha
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@Cherrybee: Wow o_O That's a lot to remember
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@kiddosc: I got the same response. I *hated* the double standard!
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This isn't really a weird rule, but maybe weird in how important it was in our house. Say you were downstairs and your mom is upstairs and you need her for something. If you call her you have to wait at least 10 seconds (like count them) before calling again. Then if she doesn't respond after 3 tries, you had to go up the stairs and ask your question in person.
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@tinyperson: That's interesting. My mom got really mad when I watched Grease at a sleepover, but honestly it all went over my head.
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We weren't allowed to celebrate Halloween or to watch the Wizard of Oz. My mom had a thing against "evil things" and witches. In 4th grade, I had to sit out of the Halloween parade along with the kid in the class who was a Jehovah's Witness. At least he had a good reason not to participate! We finally convinced my mom to let us do Halloween when I was 10 and to spite her, I went as a witch.... hahaha.
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@Cherrybee: haha I still blow a kiss to the roof of my car when I drive through a yellow light because my mom did when I was little. It's so weird!
We didn't have too many weird rules, but one thing I remember from growing up is that we never had junk food in our house, but we also didn't really have any restrictions on our TV watching. Our next door neighbors had all the good junk food (kool aid, fruit roll ups, hostess cupcakes) but they weren't allowed to watch TV except in certain special cases. So we'd go over there to eat crap food, and they'd come to our house to watch TV.
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I can't remember any weird rules in my house, but I remember my cousins weren't allowed to wear dark nail polish except for on their toes, and absolutely no red or black polish. Also, they weren't allowed to wear contacts or date alone until 16. For that, I wasn't allowed to date either until I was 16. Oh, and one time I wanted to skip youth group to finish my homework, and my mom had a cow about that.
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I don't know that we had a lot of weird rules but my parents were very strict with us. There were a whole bunch of words that were considered on the same level as cuss words in our house, and we weren't allowed to same them (stupid, hate, butt, shut up, etc...). There were serious restrictions on what we were allowed to watch (my parents gotrid of cable because they didn't want us to watch Nickolodeon and I got grounded for a month when my mom found out I watched an R rated movie when I was 15). Andi had a 9 pm bedtime (not curfew, bedtime) until I left for college at the ripe old age of 19.
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My parents didn't have many strange rules, but I wasn't allowed to wear makeup or watch MTV until I was 16. My parents weren't very strict about it so those both fell away around age 14-15. One of the few things that bothered my mom was if I said that a food someone was eating was "gross." She didn't think it was nice to say that something they were enjoying wasn't good.
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@Cherrybee: A teacher once told us to say rabbit rabbit first thing on the first day of the month to bring good luck. I totally do this! Glad I am not the only one.
As for weird things, we were not allowed to call each other names that referenced bums. Ex. butt sniffer (from a kids movie that I cannot remember the name of) was a big no-no.
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@MsLipGloss: I couldn't watch 90210 either! 90210, In Living Colour, or any of the shows that started at 10pm. I was always out of the loop!
I also had to tuck in all of my shirts, even sweaters into my pants. I am shocked that i had friends.
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@Mrs. Champagne: My brother did something similar! The rule was no farting at the table, so he jumped up, ran into the living room and farted so loud. It was sooo funny!
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I'm loving these answers!
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No cracking my knuckles
Some friends growing up weren't allowed to drink soda -
We had the cereal rule too - no sugar in the first 3 ingredients. None of the cereals with prizes ever made the cut : ( We also were not allowed to yell from one room to another unless it was an emergency. If you wanted to talk to someone, you had to go to them. They were strict about our TV/movie watching too. My husband thinks it's crazy I still haven't seen Jaws.
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@travelingnanny: I don't know if it was a rule per se, but my FIL apparently used to say "do dogs bark when they eat?" Apparently he didn't like a lot of conversation during meals. And to think, DH married into my crazy, loud mouthed family!
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No singing at dinner.
No elbows on the table.
Snack time 3 pm. Not earlier or later. Max 2 cookies even if they were small.
Bed time 9 pm until I was like 16. Then it was 10.
Could not go to a friends house unless my mom knew the other mom.
I have more too
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Oh and no soda unless a special occasion, no sugar cereal except at grandma's house...
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The no signing at the dinner table rule seems so common! I guess it makes sense if kids were too busy singing/being silly to eat!
I didn't have many rules at all growing up...it's a wonder I turned out alright! Because of that fact, I think it's funny that The Simpsons or Married With Children were shows not allowed to be on in the house -- pretty sure it was just because my mom found them annoying, not because she thought they would be a bad influence.
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We had normal rules about food (soda and junk food/sweets only as a special treat like once a week or so) and media - we were not allowed to watch most of the popular 90's shows, although we were allowed to watch some rated-R movies as kids; it just depended on the content.
One "rule" that was weird was that if my mom didn't want us watching a show, she just told my brother and I that we didn't get that channel. The TV was up high so we couldn't reach it or the remote. The rule isn't so weird, but my brother and I believed her for SO LONG. Like, until we were 8 or 9!!! LOL we still laugh about it to this day, my mom still can't believe she got that one over on us for so long without us questioning it!!!!
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@mrs. 64: I remember watching Grease when I was way too young to understand so much of it.
Absolutely NO sitting on the kitchen counter. This is still a rule at my dads house, no matter what.
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The only rule I had was I had to say "Yes/No Sir/Ma'am" to any adult talking to me. I still do sometimes...my MIL spent the first few months of our relationship pinching me whenever I called her "ma'am".
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I babysat a girl who had to brush her teeth without a shirt on. I found that bizarre. She said her parents didn't want her to mess up her PJs.
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@delight: We had that one too! My dad was convinced that the Simpsons was terrible and no amount of examples of morals taught in the show would convince him otherwise. Now I watch it all the time.
My aunt wouldn't let her kids watch the Ewoks cartoon. Apparently she thought they were satanic.
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@thismustbetheplace: umm are we siblings or something? Hate was the only real punishable swear word in my house too. Only spanking I ever got was for telling my friend that hit me one day that I hated her and my mom heard.
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Like some PPs, I wasn't allowed to say things like shut up, stupid, etc. But, my mom was also big on using the correct terms for body parts...so I wasn't allowed to say butt, and I grew up saying penis, vagina, labia, rectum, etc. The word fart was also forbidden, and I still can't really say it to this day!
My parents were really weird/strict about playing at friends' houses and having people over. They had to know the parents (which I totally understand) but they also required several days' (if not a week's) notice. So if, for example, a friend decided on a Friday to have a spontaneous sleepover that night, I was never allowed to go because my mom "didn't have enough notice." There was literally no other reason--I think it was a control thing for my mom. It's one of the few things my parents did that I really disagree with and will do differently when my kids are older/playing with friends. They loosened up about that when I got into high school, thankfully.
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i've been laughing so hard reading these.
when my mum was growing up their family had a no singing at the dinner table rule! my grandad says it was because all they would sing was ad jingles, and it drove him nuts! so he banned singing all together!
we weren't allowed to watch the simpsons, because my mum HATED it. i wanted to watch it so bad when i was growing up, but now i hate it too.
i had a 10pm curfew. my sisters (2.5 years younger) had a 12pm curfew. unamused!
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