What's one thing you do in your adult home that your parents didnt in your childhood home ?

[BrickPoet]

have shoes in a room rather than the stairs

Let my kids watch TV

Central heating. We had 1 gas fire downstairs (preceded by a coal fire) and small plug in heaters in the bedrooms, which were expensive to run, so mostly weren’t on.

Hug my kids and tell them I love them
Put effort into cooking nice meals that kids will enjoy
Play music

God yes. Grew up with no central heating and no pt much hot water. Now have heating in all the time and have a v hit bath most days. Also never bought my kids second hand clothes.

Putting the heating on

Drink alcohol.
Allow people to eat food in the house that we don't eat for ethical/religious/personal reasons.
Go to the bathroom/shower/bath with the door open/unlocked. (Obviously only if it's only immediate family here!)
Get dressed with the door open. (Same caveat as above!).
Occasionally snack in our bedroom.
Allow tradespeople/professionals to come into the house without taking their shoes off or wearing shoe covers.
Watch the telly in the bedroom occasionally. Well, even have a telly in a bedroom.
Use dehumidifiers.
Sometimes lock our bedroom door (from the outside).

Have a cat
Clean regularly

Central heating here too.
Also celebrating Christmas and birthdays
Cook with fresh food
Shower / bathe more than once a week

Sit or lie on the floor reading or playing board games.

Listen to my children and not immediately dismiss everything they say/feel just because they're children!

Drink alcohol.

Throw things away 😅 My dad was a 'tidy hoarder' my mum is very eco-conscious and wastes NOTHING

Be parents who love each other and show it.

Not allow smoking in the house. If you smoke, by all means smoke in the garden but not in my home.

As a child that constant fug and sore eyes was so disgusting really

Have a drink elsewhere other than the kitchen which is still not allowed at their house.
Play music, eat at any time.
Free access to everything for everyone at any time. No bedtimes ever, no TV restrictions, no internet restrictions.
Using the tumble dryer whenever I want to.
Advice is given and taken by everyone no matter their age here. In parents house they rule.

Lie in. 'One of your lie-ins' my mum used to say, as though I'd invented the idea of staying in bed past 7 in the morning.

Apologise when we get it wrong.

It's all very similar, similar house, same area, except we take shoes off in my home and we didn't in my childhood homes!

Also, I have a shower fitting on the bath. We only had one of those rubber attachment ones in my childhood. And I have radiators! Didn't have those.

Eat in front of the telly.

If I CBA to tidy up the kitchen, I will just shut the door and walk away.

Throw stuff away that has expired. I went through Mother's spices after she died, there was stuff in there that was pre decimalisation - it was older than me.

Get things repaired or replaced when they break or no longer do what they ought to.

Mild, non-aggressive swearing is ok.

Smoking isn't.

Toilet humour is allowed - even at the dinner table (to my dad's disgust!)

Meals are nearly always cooked from scratch.

We only eat at the table (except popcorn etc if we're watching a film together)

TV is only on if someone wants to watch something, never just in the background.

No shoes indoors.

Sometimes leave the washing up til morning. This would have been the ultimate sin in my childhood home.

Feet on the sofa!

Eat my breakfast on (not in) bed, and loll around on the bed reading my iPad (they weren't invented in my childhood).

Swear. No swearing at home, now since my last job in a very sweary workplace I drop the F bomb all the time when I'm alone.

Medicate my cats. Grew up with cats, but even regular vet visits weren't a thing in the 60s in my family (they were once my father buggered off ... hmmm). Now I have two cats, one with high blood pressure, the other with megacolon, so daily meds and a small fortune in fees and prescriptions are the norm!

Put on the heating

The kids are allowed in the living room. We were only allowed in on Christmas Day.
We have a TV
We have a car