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

Shower every day.

Watch TV
Eat additives and shop bought bread

My parents brought me up properly too, I was told people who resort to judging people based on how they speak are snobs and not worth bothering with 🙂

My late parents were not snobs. I grew up in a rural area,in a council house. F was disabled,DM cleaned private houses. Add to the central heating etc,we had neither a telephone,car,or television

My parents brought me up not to judge other people for how they speak.

I always love it when this nonsense is trotted out. 😅

Feel safe
Be warm
Have feelings

Ring people before 6pm 😂

Dust more than once a month..

Lie around in bed with my phone and a cup of tea until late in the day and sometimes don't get dressed at all!

i had to put my sanitary towels in the boiler in the kitchen, the dog got hold of it once and ran up the garden

Have carpets and wallpaper. Always have food & not worry about where the next meal is coming from.
There's a lot more, but those are obviously basic and important. Not to be taken for granted.

Tumble drying and dishwasher here too. I grew up in the 70’s and my parents never had them.

Stay in together. My dad was either itching to go to the pub, getting ready to go to the pub, or in the pub.
Work as a team to do things to the house, instead of moaning about it.
Make the kids help out from an early age. My mum didn't, but then moaned the whole of our teenage years about how unhelpful we were.

We didn’t have.
telephone.
inside toilet! And bathroom ( ok was only for a while maybe a year)
washing machine

shower ( even when we got a bathroom.

Was a happy childhood though, despite a tin bath in kitchen for a while!

Welcome the DC's friends, all of them, at any time.

Fully understand that some people hate this, but I loved it. It meant that our house was often the meeting point (still is!), and we got to know their friends well – now they're all grown up and some of them pop in to see us even if they know the DCs aren't here. There were several occasions when as teenagers they stayed here when they needed a 'safe space' or to get away from a chaotic and/or violent home briefly.

This was obviously a direct result of my friends not being very welcome at home when I was growing up.

Go upstairs to bed (I was brought up in a flat).

Put my feet up on my sofa.
Wash my hair more than once a week.
Wash my hair in the shower. For anyone confused by this, allegedly it blocks the drain so hair can only be washed in the kitchen sink with a mug.
Eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm thirsty, even it's not the prescribed, correct time.
Encourage my DC to do their homework, not insist they wash up first.
Replace clothes and shoes when they are worn out. I had one pair of school shoes a year, yet we were a two car household and went on foreign holidays every summer (1970's).

Allow cats on the bed.

intelligent people are more likely to swear though.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/swearing-study-intelligent-intelligence-university-of-rochester-a7916516.html

Allow my kids to eat what they want, when they want (within reason and they're teens/young adults anyway).
I don't want them to feel restricted as I did. And guess what, I'm overweight as an adult anyway!

Stay in on a sunny day, shock horror!!

go to the cinema on a sunny day! dreadful !

Absolutely this.
I reckon any negative feeling I ever had was suppressed!

Swear
drink alcohol
have a shoes off inside rule.