"You Had To Give A PowerPoint Presentation... To Your Own Family" – 16 Specific Rules People's Parents Had Growing Up

Recently, Least_Boysenberry583 asked r/AskReddit, "What regularisation did your parents enforce that you thought was mean until you visited a friend’s house?" Here are immoderate of the apical responses.

1. "Children aren’t allowed to decorate the Christmas tree."

"We couldn’t adjacent interaction it. I retrieve erstwhile I was successful simple schoolhouse and I was astatine a friend’s house. The mum asked if I wanted to assistance decorate their tree. I retrieve being truthful confused. I was precise hesitant but they assured maine that it was okay. It was truthful overmuch fun! When I told my mother, she sternly told maine that I amended not get immoderate ideas astir touching HER Christmas tree. It was ever ‘themed’ and precisely decorated. Everything connected it had to beryllium perfect."

–boringlesbian

2. "Girls weren’t allowed to play video games arsenic those were for boys."

"We besides couldn’t person thing bluish arsenic that’s a lad colour arsenic well.Imagine my daze erstwhile I spot a miss person playing Super Mario connected her brother’s strategy and she had bluish walls. I couldn’t judge she wasn’t successful occupation oregon being threatened with hellhole for playing a crippled meant lone for boys.After that, I secretly started playing erstwhile my household went to sleep. I was disquieted for years God was going to punish me."

–jammiesonmyhammies

3. "At dinner, we HAD to hold for my stepdad to beryllium down earlier we were allowed to eat."

"Even if the mf wanted to walk 30 min successful the bath erstwhile nutrient was already connected the table. I hated that shit. The nutrient would get acold and I wanted to hurl my sheet into his smug face. Exactly zero of my friends' families did that, and astir each of them were precise Catholic families. When their mums said meal was ready, though, everybody was expected to get their nutrient and eat. If you took excessively long, that was a YOU problem."

–Careless_Hellscape

4. "The ‘outside clothes’ rule. I genuinely thought it was a cosmopolitan instrumentality that you had to alteration into ‘house clothes’ the 2nd you walked done the doorway to support the ‘street dirt’ disconnected the furniture. Then I went to a friend’s location and they just... sat connected their furniture successful the aforesaid jeans they wore connected the bus? I was vibrating with anxiousness the full clip lol."

–Emergency-Bag5335

5. "As idiosyncratic with strict parents, it’s truthful bizarre going to your friends’ location for the archetypal time, past they speech backmost and rise their dependable astatine their parents and then... they bash nothing? Like I’m sorry, if I did the aforesaid happening to my mum oregon dada I’d beryllium missing a limb by now."

–Stellawide

6. "Thinking ‘bedtime’ meant lights out, eyes closed, nary talking. Then visiting a person and realising they conscionable hung retired successful their country until they got tired? I felt similar I was successful a den of outlaws."

–veilsereth

7. "No candles with wicks successful the house."

"My mum chopped the wicks disconnected immoderate candles I got arsenic a gift, and didn't support immoderate successful the communal spaces. She was convinced we'd airy a candle, hide astir it/knock it over, and commencement a location fire. I distinctly retrieve going to a friend's house, and she lit a Bath & Body Works candle she'd gotten for Christmas. I was shocked; my dumb kid encephalon legit thought it was ‘illegal’ to bash that successful a residential home."

–FriendlyArmadillo344

8. "We were not allowed to portion thing until we ate everything connected our plates. I thought it was a regularisation for everyone."

–Aggressive-Local-716

9. "My parent was ace stringent astir our diet. We were allowed perfectly nary junk nutrient astatine each – she shopped astatine nutrient co-ops and integrated workplace stands mode earlier it was fashionable to bash so. We were lone ever allowed skim milk, wholewheat bread, integrated fruits and veg. She made the breadstuff we ate. I was successful daze erstwhile I went to a friend's location and they had full beverage and Wonder Bread."

–Chateaudelait

10. "Parents would freak retired and effort shouting implicit the TV if anyone swore successful a movie."

"They would shout, propulsion their hands implicit my eyes, and crook it disconnected if determination was a enactment scene, forcing maine retired of the country until it was over. Going to a friend's location and watching a movie with their parents, it was a Pavlovian effect to get highly tense erstwhile a curse connection was said, waiting for the explosive freak-out. Seeing their parents enactment calm and adjacent laughter during an ‘inappropriate’ infinitesimal was jarring."

–ImpressionFast923

11. "One of my friends who was staying overnight astatine my location during the play had to spell location concisely aft their parents ate supper to bash their dishes, past helium could travel backmost implicit to my place. I did the dishes astatine my location excessively erstwhile I was home, I conscionable thought it was unusual that they couldn't rinse the dishes they utilized and enactment successful the dishwasher, nary helium had to locomotion 20 minutes home, bash dishes for similar 2-3 minutes, past locomotion back."

–Trax-M

12. "No singing astatine the table. Now that I’m older, I bash recognize that 3 children wailing astatine the apical of their lungs astir apt was the past happening my parents wanted to perceive astatine the extremity of their workday. But it was a precise coagulated regularisation that was upheld strictly - adjacent humming got you snapped at. I assumed this was universal. It definite isn’t."

–slammaslams

13. "No locks connected ANY wrong door, including bathrooms. The lone locks allowed were the doors that pb extracurricular the house. You ne'er knew erstwhile idiosyncratic would locomotion successful connected you portion you were connected the toilet oregon successful the bathtub oregon shower."

–Sharla_Rose

14. "My parents made america bash ‘family verbal reports’ each Sunday night."

"Each kid had to basal up and springiness a 2-minute update connected school, friends, and ‘one happening we learned that week.’ It felt wholly mean — similar a mini-TED speech astatine the meal table. Fast guardant to college, I casually notation this to my roommate and helium stares astatine maine similar I grew a 2nd head. ‘You had to springiness a PowerPoint presentation... to your ain family?’ It wasn't until I started dating successful my 20s and mentioned it to aggregate radical that I realised astir families just... ate dinner. No quarterly reappraisal required. That said, I tin springiness an impromptu presumption to a boardroom with zero prep, truthful acknowledgment mum and dada I guess."

–SatishKewlani

15. "Not visiting a friend's location but yet moving retired and realising that you could really unfastened windows... my mum nailed each the windows unopen astatine each location we lived successful and it conscionable ne'er occurred to maine that windows were openable by default."

16. "I went implicit to a friend's location for his 13th day and his parents had been telling him his full beingness that lone adults could digest the mediate of the cinnamon rotation and had been taking it from him his full life. He learned that it was a prank that time and did not find it astir arsenic comic arsenic the remainder of us!"

–nflickgeo

Any of your ain to add? Let america cognize successful the comments below!

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